(289586) Shackleton
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Asteroid (289586) Shackleton |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Inner main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Hertha family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3733 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1333 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0569 AU - 2.6896 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.1156 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 184.2026 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 351.5682 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | 15th October 2019 |
| Sidereal period | 3.66 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 17.3 likes |
| history | |
| Explorer | Michel Ory |
| Date of discovery | March 30, 2005 |
| Another name | 2005 FZ 4 , 2003 UT 289 |
| 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. | |
(289586) Shackleton is an asteroid of the main inner belt that was discovered by the Swiss physics teacher and amateur astronomer Michel Ory at the Jura Observatory ( IAU code 185) in Vicques in the canton of Jura on April 3, 2005. Ory was director of the observatory. An unconfirmed sighting (2003 UT 289 ) of the asteroid had already taken place on September 28, 2003 as part of the Spacewatch II project at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona .
In a broader sense, the asteroid belongs to the Nysa group, a group of asteroids named after (44) Nysa (also called the Hertha family, after (135) Hertha ).
(289586) Shackleton is named after the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton . It was named on December 10, 2011. A lunar crater in the southern lunar hemisphere was named after Ernest Shackleton in 1994 : Shackleton lunar crater .
Web links
- (289586) Shackleton in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (289586) Shackleton in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- Discovery Circumstances by (289586) Shackleton 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 affiliation of (289586) Shackleton in the AstDyS-2 database (English)
- ↑ The Shackleton lunar crater in the IAU's Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature (WGPSN) / USGS (English)