(15804) Yenisei
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Asteroid (15804) Yenisei |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Lydia family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.7406 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0500 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6035 AU - 2.8776 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 6.2711 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.54 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | EW Elst |
| Date of discovery | March 9, 1994 |
| Another name | 1994 EY 5 , 1997 YC 3 |
| 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. | |
(15804) Yenisei is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 9 March 1994 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at de Observatoire Calern was discovered in southern France.
It was named after the Siberian river Yenisei , which rises near the border with Mongolia and flows into the Kara Sea after crossing Siberia .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Yenisei: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (15804) Yenisei in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (15804) Yenisei in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).