(14519) Urals
Asteroid (14519) Urals |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Asteroid family | Themis family |
Major semi-axis | 3.1995 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1496 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.7210 AU - 3.6780 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.3590 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 98.1169 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 124.2913 ° |
Sidereal period | 5.72 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 16.64 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Medium diameter | 10.224 ± 0.186 24 km |
Albedo | 0.089 ± 0.020 |
Absolute brightness | 13.4 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
Date of discovery | October 8, 1996 |
Another name | 1996 TT 38 , 1982 BC 15 , 1997 WM 32 |
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. |
(14519) Urals is an asteroid located in the main belt , which was discovered on October 8, 1996 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( observatory code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile .
The asteroid belongs to the Themis family, a group of asteroids named after (24) Themis .
The asteroid was on 13 April 2006 following the river Ural named in 790 m altitude in the southern Urals rises through Russia and Kazakhstan passes and finally to 2,478 kilometers in more arms to the Caspian Sea ends.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Ural: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (14519) Urals in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (14519) Urals in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Database ( Memento from October 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) with the assignment of 12,487 asteroids to asteroid groups (English)