(2005) Hencke
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Asteroid (2005) Hencke |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Eunomia family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.6209 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1677 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.1814 AU - 3.0604 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 12.2210 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 291.1050 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 110.9448 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.24 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.39 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | approx. 9 km |
| Rotation period | 10.186 |
| Absolute brightness | 12.2 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Paul Wild |
| Date of discovery | 2nd September 1973 |
| Another name | 1973 RA |
| 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. | |
(2005) Hencke is an asteroid of the main belt , which the Swiss astronomers on September 2, 1973 Paul Wild , from zimmerwald observatory ( IAU code 026 ) of the University of Bern was made, discovered.
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.
(2005) Hencke is named after the German amateur astronomer Karl Ludwig Hencke (1793–1866) (not to be confused with Johann Franz Encke (1791–1865), most recently director of the Berlin observatory).
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ (2005) Hencke in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Web links
- Asteroid Hencke: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (2005) Hencke in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (2005) Hencke in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).