(233653) Rether
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Asteroid (233653) Rether |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main outer belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Euphrosyne family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1133 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1446 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6632 AU - 3.5634 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 27.7537 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 178.5870 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 143.2392 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.49 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 15.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Rolf Apitzsch |
| Date of discovery | August 23, 2008 |
| Another name | 2008 QR |
| 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. | |
(233653) Rether is an asteroid of the outer main belt , which was discovered on August 23, 2008 by the German amateur astronomer Rolf Apitzsch at the 335 mm Newtonian telescope of his private Wildberg observatory in Wildberg in the northern Black Forest ( IAU code 198). The asteroid had an apparent magnitude of 19.1 mag when it was discovered .
The asteroid belongs to the Euphrosyne family, a group of asteroids named after (31) Euphrosyne . The orbit of (233653) Rether around the sun is steeply inclined at more than 27 ° to the ecliptic of the solar system , which is typical for members of the Euphrosyne family.
(233653) Rether was named on June 15, 2011 after the cabaret artist Hagen Rether .
Web links
- (233653) Rether in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (233653) Rether in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- Discovery Circumstances by (233653) Rether according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Page for named objects of the Wildberg observatory
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)