(10659) Sauerland
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Asteroid (10659) Sauerland |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main outer belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Themis family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1572 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1225 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.7704 AU - 3.5440 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 0.8324 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 3.7951 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 173.8537 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.61 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.76 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.9 likes |
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| Explorer |
Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld , Tom Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | March 26, 1971 |
| Another name | 3266 T-1 , 1982 DG 5 , 1993 BT 5 |
| 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. | |
(10659) Sauerland is an asteroid of the outer main belt , which was discovered on March 26, 1971 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld . The discovery took place during the 1st Trojan survey, during which Tom Gehrels surveyed field plates recorded by the 120 cm Oschin Schmidt telescope of the Palomar observatory at the University of Leiden , eleven years after the start of the Palomar-Leiden- Surveys .
The asteroid belongs to the Themis family, a group of asteroids named after (24) Themis . According to the SMASS classification ( Small Main-Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey ), a spectroscopic study by Gianluca Masi , Sergio Foglia and Richard P. Binzel at (10659) Sauerland assumed a dark surface, so it could, roughly speaking, be trade a C asteroid .
The asteroid was named on May 1, 2003 after the low mountain range Sauerland .
Web links
- (10659) Sauerland in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (10659) Sauerland in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- Discovery Circumstances of (10659) Sauerland according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ (10659) Sauerland in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- ^ Gianluca Masi, Sergio Foglia, Richard P. Binzel: Search for Unusual Spectroscopic Candidates Among 40313 minor planets from the 3rd Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Moving Object Catalog . (English)
- ↑ subdivision of asteroids to S-types, C-types and V-types (English)