(10792) Ecuador
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Asteroid (10792) Ecuador |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main outer belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Eos family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.0657 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0932 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.7799 AU - 3.3514 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 10.2713 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 157.2227 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 177.5396 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.37 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.00 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 12.7 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | 2nd February 1992 |
| Another name | 1992 CQ 2 , 1990 VU |
| 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. | |
(10792) Ecuador is a main outer belt asteroid discovered on February 2, 1992 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory in Chile ( IAU code 809). An unconfirmed sighting of the asteroid had already occurred on November 8, 1990 with the provisional designation 1990 VU at the Australian Siding Spring Observatory near Coonabarabran , New South Wales .
The asteroid belongs to the Eos family , a group of asteroids which typically have large semiaxes from 2.95 to 3.1 AU , bounded inward by the Kirkwood gap of the 7: 3 resonance with Jupiter , and orbital inclinations between 8 ° and 12 °. The group is named after the asteroid (221) Eos . The family is believed to have emerged from a collision more than a billion years ago. According to the SMASS classification ( Small Main-Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey ), a spectroscopic study by Gianluca Masi , Sergio Foglia and Richard P. Binzel in (10792) Ecuador assumed a dark surface, so it could turn out to be if you roughly look parent asteroid classes divided to act as a C asteroid .
(10792) Ecuador was named on May 9, 2001 after the South American country Ecuador .
Web links
- (10792) Ecuador in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (10792) Ecuador in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- Discovery Circumstances of (10792) Ecuador according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ David Vokrouhlický , Miroslav Brož , Alessandro Morbidelli , William Bottke , David Nesvorný , Daniel Lazzaro, Andy Rivkin: Yarkovsky footprints in the Eos family ( PDF , 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)