(1595) thong
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Asteroid (1595) thong |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.6472 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1100 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.3560 AU - 2.9384 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.1646 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 112.2145 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 189.8689 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.31 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.31 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 22.21 km |
| Albedo | 0.0557 |
| Rotation period | 12.02 h |
| Absolute brightness | 11,723 likes |
| Spectral class | C. |
| history | |
| Explorer | C.V. Jackson , H. E. Wood |
| Date of discovery | June 19, 1930 |
| Another name | 1930 ME , 1935 TB, 1942 FB, 1947 LQ, 1948 TN 2 , 1950 BB, 1951 JK, 1952 QG 1 , 1959 EK, 1968 HA 1 |
| 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. | |
(1595) thong is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 19 June 1930 by the South African astronomer Cyril V. Jackson and Harry Edwin Wood on Union Observatory ( IAU code 078) in Johannesburg was discovered.
The asteroid is named after the port city of Tanga in Tanzania .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Tanga: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (1595) Tanga in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (1595) Tanga in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).