(2424) Tautenburg
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Asteroid (2424) Tautenburg |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3491 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1348 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0324 AU - 2.6658 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 8.9138 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 30.1932 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 92.8207 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.60 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.42 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.1 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Freimut Börngen K. Kirsch |
| Date of discovery | October 27, 1973 |
| Another name | 1973 UT 5 , 1964 GA, 1975 FB, 1976 QA 2 , 1976 SF 10 , 1980 TW 1 , A924 AA |
| 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. | |
(2424) Tautenburg is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on October 27, 1973 by the German astronomers Freimut Börngen and K. Kirsch at the Thuringian State Observatory Tautenburg ( IAU code 033) in the Tautenburg Forest in Thuringia .
The asteroid was named in 1983 after the municipality of Tautenburg in the Saale-Holzland district in Thuringia , which was first mentioned in a document in 1223 and is the location of the Thuringian state observatory built in 1960.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Tautenburg: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (2424) Tautenburg in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (2424) Tautenburg in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ^ Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Volume 1 in the Google Book Search