(13327) Equestrian scheme
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Asteroid (13327) equestrian theme |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.0972 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1624 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.5941 AU - 3.6003 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.1891 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 85.2089 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 304.2556 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.45 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.0 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | LONEOS |
| Date of discovery | 17th September 1998 |
| Another name | 1998 SC 24 , 9610 PL |
| 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. | |
(13327) Reitsema is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 17 September 1998 at the Lowell Observatory was discovered at the Anderson Mesa Station.
The asteroid was named on July 24, 2002 after the American astronomer Harold Reitsema . Reitsema is one of the discoverers of the Saturn moon Telesto and the Neptune moon Larissa . He was also involved in numerous NASA space missions, such as the New Horizons mission to Pluto or the Spitzer and Kepler space telescopes .
Sources and web links
- (13327) Reitsema: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (13327) Reitsema in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (13327) Equestrian theme in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).