(20044) Vitoux
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Asteroid (20044) Vitoux |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Middle main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Eunomia family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.5721 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1021 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.3095 AU - 2.8346 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 12.8645 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 158.3513 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 332.0728 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | 17th June 2017 |
| Sidereal period | 4.13 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.52 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 4.941 (± 0.123) km |
| Albedo | 0.288 (± 0.069) |
| Absolute brightness | 13.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | March 23, 1993 |
| Another name | 1993 FV 1 , 1978 RD 11 |
| 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. | |
(20044) Vitoux is an asteroid of the central main belt which was discovered on March 23, 1993 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the Schmidt telescope of the French Observatoire de Calern near Grasse ( IAU code 010). An unconfirmed sighting of the asteroid had already taken place on September 6, 1978 under the provisional designation 1978 RD 11 at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory in Chile .
The asteroid belongs to the Eunomia family, a group named after (15) Eunomia , to which probably five percent of the asteroids in the main belt belong. According to the SMASS classification ( Small Main-Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey ), a spectroscopic investigation by Gianluca Masi , Sergio Foglia and Richard P. Binzel in (20044) Vitoux assumed a bright surface, so it could, roughly speaking, be around trade an S asteroid . A later calculation of the albedo gave a value of 0.288 (± 0.069).
The mean diameter of the asteroid was calculated to be 4.941 (± 0.123) km .
(20044) Vitoux was named on March 16, 2014 after the French writer and journalist Frédéric Vitoux . His novel from 1976 Bébert, le chat de Louis-Ferdinand Céline is particularly emphasized in the naming text .
Web links
- (20044) Vitoux in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (20044) Vitoux in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- Discovery Circumstances by (20044) Vitoux according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ (20044) Vitoux at the IAU Minor Planet Center (English)
- ↑ (20044) Vitoux in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- ^ Gianluca Masi, Sergio Foglia, Richard P. Binzel: Search for Unusual Spectroscopic Candidates Among 40313 minor planets from the 3rd Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Moving Object Catalog . (English)
- ↑ subdivision of asteroids to S-types, C-types and V-types (English)