(3121) Tamines
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Asteroid (3121) Tamines |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.2276 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0851 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0381 AU - 2.4172 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 6.3654 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 125.5174 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 87.9147 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.32 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.95 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Rotation period | 4.043 h |
| Absolute brightness | 13.2 mag |
| Spectral class | SMASSII: S. |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Henri Debehogne Giovanni de Sanctis |
| Date of discovery | March 2, 1981 |
| Another name | 1981 EV , 1948 JL, 1978 GW 4 |
| 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. | |
(3121) Tamines is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 2 March 1981 by the Belgian astronomer Henri DEBEHOGNE and his Italian colleague Giovanni de Sanctis at the La Silla Observatory ( IAU code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile was discovered.
It was named after Tamines, a district of the Walloon community of Sambreville , which gained historical importance through the Tamines massacre during World War I.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Tamines: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (3121) Tamines in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (3121) Tamines in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).