(3184) Raab

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Asteroid
(3184) Raab
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  4th November 2013 ( JD 2,456,600.5)
Orbit type Main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis 2.6654  AU
eccentricity 0.2645
Perihelion - aphelion 1.9605 AU - 3.3702 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 8.1978 °
Sidereal period 4,352 a
Mean orbital velocity 18.23 km / s
Physical Properties
Medium diameter 19.3 km
Albedo 0.05
Absolute brightness 12.05 mag
Spectral class C?
history
Explorer E. L. Johnson
Date of discovery August 22, 1949
Another name 1949 QC , 1970 GR 1 , 1975 SG, 1980 WF 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.

(3184) Raab is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 22 August 1949 by the South African astronomer Ernest Leonard Johnson , from the Union Observatory ( IAU code 078) in Johannesburg from, was discovered.

The asteroid was named in May 1996 at the suggestion of Brian Marsden and Gareth V. Williams after Herbert Raab , an Austrian software engineer, amateur astronomer and developer of the Astrometrica software .

From observations with the WISE space telescope , the diameter of the asteroid was determined to be 19.3 kilometers and the albedo to be 0.05. Due to the low albedo, it can be assumed to belong to the C-type asteroids .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Joseph R. Masiero et al .: Main Belt Asteroids with WISE / NEOWISE. I. Preliminary Albedos and Diameters . The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 741, No. 2, pp. 68 (2011) article (PDF), data
  2. LD Schmadel: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names , 5th Ed., P. 264