(12512) Split
|
Asteroid (12512) split |
|
|---|---|
| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Levin family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.2691 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1917 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.8340 AU - 2.7042 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 5.0698 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 224.3945 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 84.6097 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.42 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 4.626 ± 0.136 km |
| Albedo | 0.119 ± 0.011 |
| Absolute brightness | 14.6 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Korado Korlević Marino Dusić |
| Date of discovery | April 21, 1998 |
| Another name | 1998 HW 7 , 1985 SE 3 , 1985 SQ 5 , 1995 MF 2 |
| 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. | |
(12512) Split is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on April 21, 1998 by the Croatian astronomers Korado Korlević and Marino Dusić at the Višnjan Observatory ( IAU code 120) in Croatia .
The asteroid was named on June 7, 2009 after the Dalmatian port city of Split , the city center of which, together with Diocletian's Palace, was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1979 .
(12512) Split belongs to the Levin family, a group of asteroids named after (2076) Levin .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)
Web links
- Asteroid Split: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (12512) Split in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (12512) Split in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).