(11510) Borges
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Asteroid (11510) Borges |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Brasilia family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.8543 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0767 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6353 AU - 3.0733 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 15.2828 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 179.7295 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 357.3259 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.82 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.62 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 12.7 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | November 11, 1990 |
| Another name | 1990 VV 8 , 1978 EL 2 , 1998 MB 9 |
| 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. | |
(11510) Borges is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 11 November 1990 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( IAU code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile was discovered.
The asteroid belongs to the Brasilia family, a group of asteroids named after (293) Brasilia .
The asteroid was named on May 23, 2000 after the Argentine writer and librarian Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), who wrote a variety of fantastic stories, poems and short stories.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Borges: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (11510) Borges in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (11510) Borges in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)