(10749) Musäus
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Asteroid (10749) Musäus |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Hertha family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4053 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1262 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.1019 AU - 2.7088 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.8116 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 91.0229 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 18.9727 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.73 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.20 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.9 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Freimut Börngen |
| Date of discovery | April 6, 1989 |
| Another name | 1989 GH 8 , 1995 YV 2 |
| 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. | |
(10749) Musäus is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on April 6, 1989 by the German astronomer Freimut Börngen at the Thuringian State Observatory Tautenburg ( IAU code 033) in Thuringia .
The asteroid belongs to the Nysa group, a group of asteroids named after (44) Nysa (also called the Hertha family, after (135) Hertha).
(10749) Musäus was named on November 23, 1999 after the German writer , literary critic , school man, philologist and fairy tale collector of the Enlightenment Johann Karl August Musäus (1735–1787), who in the years 1782–1786 created the successful fairy tale collection "Folk Tales of the Germans" , which also contains the legends of the Rübezahl , published.
See also
Web links
- (10749) Musäus in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (10749) Musäus in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- Discovery Circumstances of (10749) Musäus according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)