(3412) Kafka
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Asteroid (3412) Kafka |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Inner main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.2244 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1040 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.9931 AU - 2.4558 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.9746 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 307.6813 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 117.2713 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.32 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.97 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.3 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Randolph Kirk , Donald Rudy |
| Date of discovery | January 10, 1983 |
| Another name | 1983 AU 2 , 1942 YB, 1977 FF 3 , 1978 PA 2 , 1978 QE 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. | |
(3412) Kafka is a major inner belt asteroid discovered by geophysicist Randolph Kirk and Donald Rudy at the Palomar Observatory in California on January 10, 1983 . It has been named after the writer Franz Kafka since February 13, 1987 .
There were already a number of sightings of the asteroid, such as on December 31, 1942 at the Iso-Heikkilä Observatory of the University of Turku (1942 YB), on March 26, 1977 (1977 FF 3 ), on August 8, 1978 (1978 PA 2 ) and August 31, 1978 (1978 QE 1 ) at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj .
In a hierarchical cluster analysis by Vincenzo Zappalà et al. In 1995, (3412) Kafka landed in the Flora family, a large group of asteroids named after (8) Flora .
Web links
- (3412) Kafka in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (3412) Kafka in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- Discovery Circumstances by (3412) Kafka according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ (3412) Kafka at the IAU Minor Planet Center (English)
- ^ Zappalà et al .: Asteroid Families: Search of a 12,487-Asteroid Sample Using Two Different Clustering Techniques . In: Icarus 116 (2), pp. 291-314 (1995), (English)