(11871) Norge

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Asteroid
(11871) Norge
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  4th November 2013 ( JD 2,456,600.5)
Orbit type Inner main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis 2.2398  AU
eccentricity 0.0743
Perihelion - aphelion 2.0733 AU - 2.4063 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 5.4063 °
Length of the ascending node 140.1532 °
Argument of the periapsis 19.4865 °
Sidereal period 3.35 a
Mean orbital velocity 19.90 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness 14.7 mag
history
Explorer Eric Walter Elst
Date of discovery October 7, 1989
Another name 1989 TP 7 , 1984 BL 3 , 1989 SJ 8
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.

(11871) Norge is an asteroid of the main inner belt , which was discovered on October 7, 1989 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory in Chile ( IAU code 809). There had been unconfirmed sightings of the asteroid before: in January 1984 (1984 BL 3 ) at the Palomar Observatory in California and on September 28, 1989 (1989 SJ 8 ) at the La Silla Observatory.

The Italian astronomer Vincenzo Zappalà defined in a publication from 1995 (et al.) That (11871) Norge belonged to the Flora family, a large group of asteroids named after (8) Flora . Asteroids of this family move in a 4: 9 orbital resonance with the planet Mars around the sun . The group is also called the Ariadne family, after the asteroid (43) Ariadne . According to the SMASS classification ( Small Main-Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey ), a spectroscopic investigation by Gianluca Masi , Sergio Foglia and Richard P. Binzel at (11871) Norge determined that it could be one of the rare V-asteroids .

(11871) Norge was named on July 5, 2001 after the northern European state of Norway . Norge is the name of Norway in Bokmål , one of the two official standard varieties of Norwegian .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. (11871) Norge at the IAU Minor Planet Center (English)
  2. Database with the assignment of 12,487 asteroids to asteroid groups (English)
  3. ^ Gianluca Masi, Sergio Foglia, Richard P. Binzel: Search for Unusual Spectroscopic Candidates Among 40313 minor planets from the 3rd Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Moving Object Catalog . (English)
  4. subdivision of asteroids to S-types, C-types and V-types (English)