(2619) Skalnaté Pleso

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Asteroid
(2619) Skalnaté Pleso
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  April 27, 2019 ( JD 2,458,600.5)
Orbit type Outer main belt
Major semi-axis 3.0083 ± 0.0002  AU
eccentricity 0.0424 ± 0.0004
Perihelion - aphelion 2.8807 ± 0.0011 AU - 3.1359 ± 0.0002 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 1.121 ± 0.0004 °
Length of the ascending node 204.3499 ± 0.0002 °
Argument of the periapsis 70.8348 ± 0.0002 °
Time of passage of the perihelion January 1, 2021
Sidereal period 5.22 a ± 0.1492 d
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness 12.7 mag
history
Explorer United StatesUnited States Scolded John Bus , Eleanor HelinUnited StatesUnited States 
Date of discovery June 25, 1979
Another name 1979 MZ 3 ; 1975 TN 5 ; 1975 VP 7
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(2619) Skalnaté Pleso ( 1979 MZ 3 ; 1975 TN 5 ; 1975 VP 7 ) is an asteroid of the outer main belt that was found on June 25, 1979 by the American astronomers John Bus and Eleanor Helin at the Siding Spring Observatory in was discovered near Coonabarabran , New South Wales in Australia ( IAU code 260).

designation

(2619) Skalnaté Pleso was named after the observatory Skalnaté Pleso (IAU code 056), which is located in Slovakia (after which the asteroid (1807) Slovakia was named) in the High Tatras .

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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 28, 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “1979 MZ 3 . Discovered 1979 June 25 by EF Helin and SJ Bus at Siding Spring. "
predecessor asteroid successor
(2618) Coonabarabran numbering (2620) Santana