(10806) Mexico
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Asteroid (10806) Mexico |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main outer belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Hygiea family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1885 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1090 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.8409 AU - 3.5360 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 6.1630 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 98.1966 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 81.5811 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.69 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.68 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.0 likes |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | March 23, 1993 |
| Another name | 1993 FA 2 , 1987 DB 5 , 1998 BZ 10 |
| 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. | |
(10806) Mexico is an asteroid of the main outer belt , which was discovered on March 23, 1993 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the Schmidt telescope of the French Observatoire de Calern near Grasse ( IAU code 010). There were unconfirmed sightings of the asteroid at the Observatoire de Calern on February 23, 1987 under the provisional designation 1987 DB 5 .
The asteroid belongs to the Hygiea family, a rather older group of asteroids, as is believed, the largest member of which is the asteroid (10) Hygiea . The timeless (non- osculating ) orbital elements of (10806) Mexico are almost identical to those of five smaller asteroids, if one considers the absolute magnitude of 14.4, 14.1, 15.4, 16.2 and 15.7 compared to 13 , 0 starts: (78528) 2002 RO 98 , (86240) 1999 TU 119 , (191516) 2003 US 112 , (229872) 2009 UB 30 and (231386) 2006 JU 54 .
(10806) Mexico was named after Mexico on May 9, 2001 .
Web links
- (10806) Mexico in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (10806) Mexico in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- Discovery Circumstances of (10806) Mexico 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)