(30797) Chimborazo
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Asteroid (30797) Chimborazo |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Middle main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Eunomia family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.6911 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1427 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.3070 AU - 3.0751 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 12.5314 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 293.0007 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 193.4963 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | July 12, 2015 |
| Sidereal period | 4.41 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.3 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | 4th February 1989 |
| Another name | 1989 CV 2 , 2002 RZ 79 |
| 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. | |
(30797) Chimborazo is an asteroid of the main central belt . It was discovered on February 4, 1989 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory in Chile ( IAU code 809).
The asteroid belongs to the Eunomia family, a group named after (15) Eunomia , to which probably five percent of the asteroids in the main belt belong. The ageless (not osculating ) orbital elements of (30797) Chimborazo are almost identical with those of the smaller, if one of the absolute brightness starting from 16.4 compared to 14.3, asteroids (363608) 2004 FS 148 .
(30797) Chimborazo was born on 12 March 2017 after the Ecuadorian stratovolcano Chimborazo named.
See also
Web links
- (30797) Chimborazo in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (30797) Chimborazo in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- Discovery Circumstances of (30797) Chimborazo 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 (30797) Chimborazo in the AstDyS-2 database (English)
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)