(16513) Vasks
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Asteroid (16513) Vasks |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.5906 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0593 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.4370 AU - 2.7441 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 12.7568 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 203.0798 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 121.8063 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.17 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 7.786 ± 0.134 km |
| Albedo | 0.206 ± 0.038 |
| Rotation period | 26,333 h |
| Absolute brightness | 12.8 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | EW Elst |
| Date of discovery | November 15, 1990 |
| Another name | 1990 VP 6 , 1998 QL 2 |
| 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. | |
(16513) Vasks is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 15 November 1990 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( IAU code 809) in Chile was discovered.
The celestial body was named on June 13, 2006 after the Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks (* 1946), who is one of the most famous composers from the states of the former Soviet Union and who was accepted into the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 2001.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Vasks: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (16513) Vasks in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (16513) Vasks in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).