(255019) Fleurmaxwell
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Asteroid (255019) Fleurmaxwell |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main outer belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Themis family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1040 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1774 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.5532 AU - 3.6548 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 1.4824 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 228.8343 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 180.8010 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | October 30, 2016 |
| Sidereal period | 5.47 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 16.7 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Matt Dawson |
| Date of discovery | October 10, 2005 |
| Another name | 2005 TN 52 |
| 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. | |
(255019) Fleurmaxwell is an asteroid of the main outer belt discovered by the English - Luxembourg astronomer and musician Matt Dawson on October 10, 2005 at the French Observatoire des Côtes de Meuse ( IAU code 216). The observatory is located in Viéville-sous-les-Côtes , in the municipality of Vigneulles-lès-Hattonchâtel , not far from the Luxembourg border.
The asteroid belongs to the Themis family, a group of asteroids named after (24) Themis . The timeless (non- osculating ) orbital elements of (255019) Fleurmaxwell are almost identical to those of four other asteroids: (9562) Memling , (114761) 2003 HN 47 , (250812) 2005 UA 54 and 2015 BQ 437 .
(255019) Fleurmaxwell was named on July 15, 2011 after the Luxembourg figure skater Fleur Maxwell , the only Luxembourg participant in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin .
Web links
- (255019) Fleurmaxwell in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (255019) Fleurmaxwell in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- Discovery Circumstances of (255019) Fleurmaxwell according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)