(16689) Vistula
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Asteroid (16689) Vistula |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1575 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1556 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6662 AU - 3.6488 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 11.6038 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 141.2564 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 293.9347 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.61 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 10.212 ± 0.284 km |
| Albedo | 0.141 ± 0.015 |
| Absolute brightness | 12.9 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | EW Elst |
| Date of discovery | August 12, 1994 |
| Another name | 1994 PZ 26 , 1998 KX 59 |
| 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. | |
(16689) Vistula is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 12 August 1994 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory ( IAU code in 809) Chile was discovered.
The asteroid was named on August 9, 2006 after the Latin name of the Vistula River , which forms the Vistula Delta after 1048 kilometers and flows into the Baltic Sea east of Gdansk .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Vistula: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (16689) Vistula in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (16689) Vistula in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).