(13122) Drava
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Asteroid (13122) Drava |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3244 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1159 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0549 AU - 2.5939 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 6.5983 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 141.9300 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 121.2069 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.54 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.53 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.9 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | February 7, 1994 |
| Another name | 1994 CV 9 , 1998 JV 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. | |
(13122) Drava is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 7 February 1994 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 was named on May 23, 2000 after the local name of the Drava , the fourth longest tributary of the Danube at 749 kilometers . It rises in the Puster Valley in South Tyrol , flows through Austria and Slovenia and flows into the Danube below Osijek in Croatia .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Drava: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (13122) Drava in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (13122) Drava in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).