(11518) Young
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Asteroid (11518) Young |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Themis family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.2352 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0981 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.9179 AU - 3.5524 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 0.7540 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 18.6033 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 168.4635 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.82 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.57 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.1 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | April 8, 1991 |
| Another name | 1991 GB 3 , 1993 QB 4 |
| 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. | |
(11518) Young is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 8 April 1991 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 Themis family, a group of asteroids named after (24) Themis .
The asteroid was named on May 23, 2000 after the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961), who founded analytical psychology .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Jung: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (11518) Jung in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (11518) Jung 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)