(13260) Sabadell

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Asteroid
(13260) Sabadell
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  July 31, 2016 ( JD 2,457,600.5)
Orbit type Main belt asteroid
Asteroid family Eunomia family
Major semi-axis 2.5476  AU
eccentricity 0.1583
Perihelion - aphelion 2.1443 AU - 2.9509 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 12.7609 °
Length of the ascending node 286.9985 °
Argument of the periapsis 7.0798 °
Sidereal period 4.07 a
Mean orbital velocity 18.65 km / s
Physical Properties
Medium diameter 5.304 ± 0.105 km
Albedo 0.306 ± 0.029
Rotation period 6.4366 h
Absolute brightness 13.5 likes
history
Explorer F. Casarramona
A. Vidal
Date of discovery August 23, 1998
Another name 1998 QZ 15 , 1974 TQ 1
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.

(13260) Sabadell is an asteroid of the main belt , which on August 23, 1998 by the Spanish amateur astronomers Ferrán Casarramona and Antoni Vidal on Montjoia Observatory ( IAU code 953) in Spain was discovered.

The asteroid belongs to the Eunomia family, a group named after (15) Eunomia , to which probably five percent of the asteroids in the main belt belong.

It was named on July 26, 2000 after the Agrupació Astronòmica de Sabadell , the most important association of amateur astronomers in Spain .

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Individual evidence

  1. The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)