(10516) Sakurajima
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Asteroid (10516) Sakurajima |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Hertha family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4186 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2216 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.8827 AU - 2.9545 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.6626 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 64.9295 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 291.2455 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.76 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.15 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 3.990 km (± 0.771) |
| Albedo | 0.306 (± 0.083) |
| Rotation period | 6.5639 h |
| Absolute brightness | 13.8 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Masaru Mukai Masanori Takeishi |
| Date of discovery | November 1, 1989 |
| Another name | 1989 VQ , 1974 VE |
| Source: Unless otherwise stated, the data comes from JPL Small-Body Database Browser . The affiliation to an asteroid family is automatically determined from the AstDyS-2 database . Please also note the note on asteroid items. | |
(10516) Sakurajima is an asteroid of the main belt , which on November 1, 1989 by Japanese amateur astronomers Masaru Mukai and Masanori Takeishi at the Kagoshima Station ( IAU code 364) of JCPM in Chile was discovered.
The celestial body belongs to the Nysa group, a group of asteroids named after (44) Nysa (also called the Hertha family, after (135) Hertha ).
The asteroid was named on June 14, 2003 after the active Sakurajima volcano in Kagoshima Prefecture on Kyushu Island .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)
Web links
- Asteroid Sakurajima: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (10516) Sakurajima in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (10516) Sakurajima in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).