(22222) Hodios
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Asteroid (22222) Hodios |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Jupiter Trojan (L 4 ) |
| Major semi-axis | 5.0818 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0444 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 4.8561 AU - 5.3076 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.4039 ° |
| Sidereal period | 11.46 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 13.17 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 12.7 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Cornelis van Houten Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld |
| Date of discovery | September 30, 1973 |
| Another name | 3156 T-2, 1998 SJ 146 |
| 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. | |
(22222) Hodios is an asteroid belonging to the group of Jupiter Trojans . This describes asteroids that move around the sun on the Lagrange points on Jupiter's orbit .
(22222) Hodios was discovered on September 30, 1973 by the Dutch astronomers Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at the Palomar Observatory ( IAU code 675). It is assigned to the Lagrangian point L 4 .
The asteroid is named after the mythological Greek herald Hodios , who together with the herald Eurybates , with Odysseus and Phoinix as a member of the pleading (Presbeia) wanted to get Achilles to intervene again before Troy .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Hodios: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (22222) Hodios in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (22222) Hodios in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).