(14792) Thyestes
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Asteroid (14792) Thyestes |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Jupiter Trojan (L 4 ) |
| Major semi-axis | 5.1725 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0825 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 4.7455 AU - 5.5995 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 11.3686 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 154.7721 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 244.8681 ° |
| Sidereal period | 11.76 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 13.12 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 19.176 ± 0.529 km |
| Albedo | 0.159 ± 0.036 |
| Absolute brightness | 12.1 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
CJ van Houten I. van Houten-Groeneveld Tom Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | September 24, 1973 |
| Another name | 1973 SG 1 , 1997 UV 26 , 2000 AN 179 |
| 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. | |
(14792) Thyestes is an asteroid belonging to the group of Jupiter Trojans . This describes asteroids that move around the sun on the Lagrange points on Jupiter's orbit .
(14792) Thyestes was discovered on September 24, 1973 by the Dutch astronomers Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at the Palomar Observatory . It is assigned to the Lagrangian point L 4 .
The asteroid was named on March 9, 2001 after the mythological figure of Thyestes , the king of Mycenae and brother of Atreus .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Thyestes: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (14792) Thyestes in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (14792) Thyestes in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).