(229631) Cluny
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Asteroid (229631) Cluny |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Middle main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.6232 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1225 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.3018 AU - 2.9445 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 13.2945 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 149.8871 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 290.9314 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.25 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 16.5 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Jean-Claude Merlin |
| Date of discovery | March 4, 2006 |
| Another name | 2006 ER |
| 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. | |
(229631) Cluny is an asteroid of the main middle belt discovered by the French computer scientist and amateur astronomer Jean-Claude Merlin on March 4, 2006 at the fully automatic Ritchey-Chrétien 81 cm telescope of the Tenagra II Observatory in Nogales , Arizona ( IAU code 926 ) has been discovered. The telescope was able to head for Merlin from France when it was discovered.
The asteroid is in a zone of 4-3-1 orbital resonance with Jupiter and Saturn . When Saturn orbits the Sun , Jupiter completes three and the asteroid four orbits.
(229631) Cluny was named on November 28, 2010 after the French city of Cluny , which arose around the Cluny Abbey , a Benedictine monastery , at the beginning of the 10th century . Already in 1976 a Mars crater was named after Cluny: Mars Crater Cluny .
Web links
- (229631) Cluny in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (229631) Cluny in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- Discovery Circumstances by (229631) Cluny according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Value of the orbit resonance of (229631) Cluny in the AstDyS-2 database (English)
- ↑ The Mars Crater Cluny in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS (English)