(31031) Altiplano
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Asteroid (31031) Altiplano |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Inner main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Hertha family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4495 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1587 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0608 AU - 2.8382 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.7894 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 164.8274 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 77.6607 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.83 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.9 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | April 18, 1996 |
| Another name | 1996 HV 20 , 1999 AS 38 |
| 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. | |
(31031) Altiplano is an asteroid of the main inner belt discovered on April 18, 1996 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 Nysa group, a group of asteroids named after (44) Nysa (also called the Hertha family, after (135) Hertha ). The timeless (non- osculating ) orbit elements of (31031) Altiplano are almost identical to those of six smaller ones, if one considers the absolute brightness of 17.0, 16.7, 16.8, 17.2, 18.0 and 16, 9 compared to 14.9, asteroids: (170327) 2003 SO 83 , (183356) 2002 VH 124 , (213257) 2001 EA 23 , (240358) 2003 SA 46 , (291119) 2005 YD 194 and (333352) 2001 UK 6 .
(31031) Altiplano was named on July 12, 2014 after the Altiplano , an outflow-free plateau in southeastern Peru and western Bolivia .
See also
Web links
- (31031) Altiplano in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (31031) Altiplano in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- Discovery Circumstances of (31031) Altiplano 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)