(2541) Edebono
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Asteroid (2541) Edebono |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Koronis family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.9347 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0820 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6941 AU - 3.1753 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.2003 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 77.0460 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 327.6152 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.03 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.38 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | approx. 10 km |
| Absolute brightness | 11.9 likes |
| history | |
| Explorer | Luboš Kohoutek |
| Date of discovery | February 27, 1973 |
| Another name | 1973 DE , 1951 WE 2 , 1976 UQ 5 , 1978 EX 5 , 1981 WW 1 |
| 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. | |
(2541) Edebono is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on February 27, 1973 by the Czech astronomer Luboš Kohoutek at the Hamburg observatory ( IAU code 029) in the Hamburg district of Bergedorf . The asteroid had already been sighted on November 29, 1951 under the provisional designation 1951 WE 2 at the McDonald Observatory near the city of Fort Davis in the " Davis Mountains " in Texas .
The asteroid is a member of the Koronis family, a group of asteroids named after (158) Koronis .
(2541) Edebono was named after the British doctor , cognitive scientist and writer Edward de Bono (* 1933), who was born in Malta and is considered one of the leading teachers of creative thinking. Other asteroids whose names are related to Malta are (55082) Xlendi (named after the town of Xlendi ), (56329) Tarxien (named after the temples of Tarxien ) and (56422) Mnajdra (named after the temple complex Mnajdra ).
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Edebono: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (2541) Edebono in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (2541) Edebono in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ (2541) Edebono at the IAU Minor Planet Center (English)
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)