(3016) Meuse
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Asteroid (3016) Meuse |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Outer main belt |
| Asteroid family | Koronis family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.8333 ± 0.0001 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.044 ± 0.0003 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.7087 ± 0.001 AU - 2.9578 ± 0.0001 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.8955 ± 0.0388 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 128.9023 ± 0.8851 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 318.0984 ± 0.0001 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | June 15, 2018 |
| Sidereal period | 4.77 a ± 0.1189 d |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 9.881 ± 0.106 km |
| Albedo | 0.239 ± 0.058 |
| Absolute brightness | 12.3 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
 Henri Debehogne , Giovanni de Sanctis
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| Date of discovery | March 1, 1981 |
| Another name | 1981 EK ; 1933 BR; 1974 TY; 1974 VS 2 ; 1978 PR 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. | |
(3016) Meuse ( 1981 EK ; 1933 BR ; 1974 TY ; 1974 VS 2 ; 1978 PR 1 ) is an asteroid about ten kilometers in size of the main outer belt that was discovered on March 1, 1981 by the Belgian astronomer Henri Debehogne and the Italian astronomer Giovanni de Sanctis at the La Silla Observatory on which La Silla was discovered in La Higuera in Chile ( IAU code 809). It belongs to the Koronis family , a group of asteroids named after (158) Koronis .
designation
(3016) Meuse was named after the Meuse ( French Meuse ), a nearly 900 kilometer long river. It flows through the French cities of Verdun , Domremy-la-Canne and Sedan ; the Belgian cities of Dinant (asteroid: (2765) Dinant ), Namur ( (3374) Namur ), Huy and Liège and the cities of Maastricht , Nijmegen and Rotterdam in the Kingdom of the Netherlands .
See also
Web links
- (3016) Meuse in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (3016) Meuse in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
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 October 2, 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “1981 EK. Discovered 1981 Mar. 1 by H. Debehogne and G. DeSanctis at La Silla. "
| predecessor | asteroid | successor |
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| (3015) Candy | numbering | (3017) Petrovič |