(3124) Kansas
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Asteroid (3124) Kansas |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Lydia family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.7485 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0771 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.5366 AU - 2.9604 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 5.9109 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 160.8982 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 171.2108 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.56 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.97 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.46 mag |
| Spectral class | CG |
| history | |
| Explorer | David J. Tholen |
| Date of discovery | 3rd November 1981 |
| Another name | 1981 VB , 1997 HJ 18 |
| 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. | |
(3124) Kansas is an asteroid of the main belt , the American US on November 3, 1981 by astronomers David J. Tholen on the on the Kitt Peak located seaward position of the Steward Observatory ( IAU code 691) of the University of Arizona has discovered.
The asteroid belongs to the Lydia family, a group of asteroids named after (110) Lydia .
The asteroid was named after the US state of Kansas , the home state of the discoverer.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Kansas: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (3124) Kansas in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (3124) Kansas in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family affiliation of (3124) Kansas in the AstDyS-2 database (English)