(347028) Važec
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Asteroid (347028) Važec |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Inner main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Hertha family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3929 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1610 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0076 AU - 2.7781 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 1.7715 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 237.9534 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 209.5038 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.70 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 18.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Tomáš Vorobjov |
| Date of discovery | March 13, 2010 |
| Another name | 2010 EV 44 , 2001 VV 72 |
| 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. | |
(347028) Važec is an asteroid of the main inner belt that was discovered by the Slovak amateur astronomer Tomáš Vorobjov on March 13, 2010 at the fully automated LightBuckets Observatory in Rodeo, Hidalgo County , New Mexico ( IAU code H11), even before the observatory moved to France in November 2011 . Tomáš Vorobjov was able to control the telescope used from Europe. There had already been sightings of the asteroid in 2001 under the provisional designation 2001 VV 72 at the outstation of the Steward Observatory located on Kitt Peak .
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 (not osculating ) orbital elements of (347,028) Važec are almost identical to those of nine other asteroids: (24768) 1993 FC 13 , (102612) 1999 VY 19 , (119337) 2001 SB 146 , (130436) 2000 QY 13 , (163751) 2003 OQ , (170238) 2003 QS 27 , (255723) 2006 QK 124 , (260551) 2005 EN 187 and (291909) 2006 QP 11 .
(347028) Važec was named on August 21, 2013 after the northern Slovak municipality of Važec .
Web links
- (347028) Važec in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (347028) Važec in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- Discovery Circumstances by (347028) Važec according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ (347028) Važec at the IAU Minor Planet Center (English)
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)