(10793) Quito
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Asteroid (10793) Quito |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Veritas family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1752 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0879 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.8960 AU - 3.4544 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 8.0847 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.66 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.72 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 12.6 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | EW Elst |
| Date of discovery | 2nd February 1992 |
| Another name | 1992 CU 287 , 1956 UE, 1995 PO |
| 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. | |
(10793) Quito is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 2 February 1992 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the European Southern Observatory was discovered.
It was named on March 2, 2000 after the city of Quito , the capital of the South American state of Ecuador .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Quito: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (10793) Quito in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (10793) Quito in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).