(11739) Baton Rouge
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Asteroid (11739) Baton Rouge |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.9311 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2520 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.9404 AU - 4.9219 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 12.1106 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 269.7016 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 115.5897 ° |
| Sidereal period | 7.79 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 15.01 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | approx. 17 km |
| Absolute brightness | 12.0 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Walter R. Cooney, Jr. Matthew Collier |
| Date of discovery | September 25, 1998 |
| Another name | 1998 SG 27 , 1976 YA 2 , 1984 YO 4 , 1998 QC 65 |
| 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. | |
(11739) Baton Rouge is a major outer belt asteroid that was discovered on September 25, 1998 by American astronomers Walter R. Cooney, Jr. and Matthew Collier at the Highland Road Park Observatory ( IAU code 747) in Baton Rouge , State Louisiana was discovered.
The asteroid was named after Baton Rouge , the capital of the US state Louisiana.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Baton Rouge: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (11739) Baton Rouge in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (11739) Baton Rouge in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).