(35352) Texas

Asteroid (35352) Texas
Properties of the orbit ( animation ) Epoch:  December 9, 2014 ( JD 2,457,000.5)
Orbit type	Main belt
Asteroid family	Hertha family
Major semi-axis	2.3470  AU
eccentricity	0.2402
Perihelion - aphelion	1.7833 AU - 2.9107 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane	1.5796 °
Length of the ascending node	229.0449 °
Argument of the periapsis	76.2686 °
Sidereal period	3.60 a
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness	16.4 mag
history
Explorer	William G. Dillon Randy Pepper
Date of discovery	August 7, 1997
Another name	1997 PD 2 , 1979 OA 8 , 2001 UZ 62
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.

(35352) Texas is an asteroid of the main belt , which from the August 7, 1997 American US astronomer William G. Dillon and Randy Pepper at George Observatory in Needville ( IAU code was discovered 735). The first sightings of the asteroid had already been made in August 1995 under the provisional name 1979 OA ₈ at the Palomar Observatory in California .

The asteroid belongs to the Nysa group, a group of asteroids named after (44) Nysa (also called the Hertha family, after (135) Hertha ).

(35352) Texas was named on June 13, 2006 after the US state Texas , which with its 254 counties has the most counties of any state in the United States.

See also

• List of asteroids

Web links

• Asteroid Texas: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
• (35352) Texas in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
• (35352) Texas in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ (35352) Texas at the IAU Minor Planet Center (English)
2. ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)