(16646) Sparrman
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Asteroid (16646) Sparrman |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Vesta family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3451 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0798 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.1580 AU - 2.5322 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 6.5523 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 347.9402 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 106.6186 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.59 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 3.778 ± 0.383 km |
| Albedo | 0.269 ± 0.111 |
| Absolute brightness | 13.9 likes |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | September 19, 1993 |
| Another name | 1993 SJ 5 , 1986 RS 17 , 1986 RY 10 , 1995 CK 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. | |
(16646) Sparrman is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 19 September 1993 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the Observatoire de Calern ( IAU code was discovered 910).
The asteroid is part of the Vesta family , a large group of asteroids named after (4) Vesta , the second largest asteroid and third largest celestial body in the main belt.
The asteroid was named on January 6, 2007 after the Swedish doctor , botanist and ornithologist Anders Erikson Sparrman (1748-1820), a student of Linnaeus who accompanied James Cook on his second circumnavigation in 1772 .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)
Web links
- Asteroid Sparrman: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (16646) Sparrman in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (16646) Sparrman in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).