(133250) Rubik
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Asteroid (133250) Rubik |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Middle main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.6705 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1020 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.3980 AU - 2.9430 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.7871 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 139.4552 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 183.0693 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.36 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 16.3 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Krisztián Sárneczky Brigitta Sipőcz |
| Date of discovery | September 5, 2003 |
| Another name | 2003 RK 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. | |
(133250) Rubik is an asteroid of the central main belt that was discovered on September 5, 2003 by the Hungarian amateur astronomer Krisztián Sárneczky and the Hungarian astronomer Brigitta Sipőcz at the Piszkéstető observatory ( IAU code 561) in the northern Hungarian Mátra Mountains on behalf of the Budapest Konkoly- Observatory was discovered. With an absolute brightness of 19.5 mag, it was found during a search for the Cubewano (307616) 2003 QW 90 .
The track from (133250) Rubik was secured in 2006 so that numbering could be assigned. The asteroid was named on May 20, 2008 after the Hungarian architect Ernő Rubik , the inventor of the Rubik's Cube . The RK from the provisional name of the asteroid, 2003 RK 8 , offered itself for this naming.
Web links
- (133250) Rubik in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (133250) Rubik in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- Discovery Circumstances by (133250) Rubik according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Újabb magyar kisbolygók . Article by Krisztián Sárneczky from November 20, 2008 on csillagaszat.hu (Hungarian)