(2453) Wabash
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Asteroid (2453) Wabash |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Outer main belt |
| Asteroid family | Eos family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.0169 ± 0.00002 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1145 ± 0.0005 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6716 ± 0.0014 AU - 3.3622 ± 0.0002 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 10.3207 ± 0.054 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 11.8274 ± 0.2043 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 340.352 ± 0.2772 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | April 24, 2021 |
| Sidereal period | 5.24 a ± 0.1604 d |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 19.238 ± 0.352 km |
| Albedo | 0.158 ± 0.018 |
| Rotation period | 6.878 h |
| Absolute brightness | 11.1 mag |
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| Explorer |
.svg){kind=small} Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth
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| Date of discovery | September 30, 1921 |
| Another name | A921 SA ; 1936 MG; 1974 XD; 1979 UC 2nd |
| 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. | |
(2453) Wabash ( A921 SA ; 1936 MG ; 1974 XD ; 1979 UC 2 ) is an approximately 19 kilometers large asteroid of the outer main belt that was discovered on September 30, 1921 by the German (then: Weimar Republic ) astronomer Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth at the State Observatory Heidelberg-Königstuhl was discovered on the western summit of the Königstuhl near Heidelberg ( IAU code 024). It belongs to the Eos family, a group of asteroids named after (221) Eos .
designation
(2453) Wabash was named after Bob "Wabash" Warshow , who works in the central computing facility of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics . In his spare time he is a speleologist . The naming was suggested by UK astronomer Brian Marsden .
See also
Web links
- (2453) Wabash in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (2453) Wabash in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
Individual evidence
- ^ Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition. Ed .: Lutz D. Schmadel. 5th edition. Springer Verlag , Berlin , Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7 , pp. 186 (English, 992 pp., Link.springer.com [ONLINE; accessed on August 12, 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “A921 SA. Discovered 1921 Sept. 30 by K. Reinmuth at Heidelberg. "