(37573) Enricocaruso
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Asteroid (37573) Enricocaruso |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Inner main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Hertha family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3795 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2006 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.9023 AU - 2.8568 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.1599 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 55.6055 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 1.3844 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.67 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.30 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 15.1 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Freimut Börngen |
| Date of discovery | October 23, 1989 |
| Another name | 1989 UB 7 , 2000 RG 7 |
| 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. | |
(37573) Enricocaruso is an asteroid of the inner main belt , which was discovered by the German astronomer Freimut Börngen on October 23, 1989 at the Thuringian State Observatory Tautenburg ( IAU code 033).
The asteroid belongs to the Nysa group, a group of asteroids named after (44) Nysa (also called the Hertha family, after (135) Hertha ).
The track of (37573) Enricocaruso was secured in 2002 so that numbering could be assigned. The asteroid was named on January 6, 2003 after the Italian opera singer Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) at the suggestion of Freimut Börngen . Caruso was the most famous tenor of the first half of the 20th century and is considered one of the most important figures in the opera world . On December 16, 2013, an impact crater on the southern hemisphere of the planet Mercury was named after Enrico Caruso: Mercury Crater Caruso .
Web links
- (37573) Enricocaruso in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (37573) Enricocaruso in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- Discovery Circumstances of (37573) Enricocaruso according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family affiliation of (37573) Enricocaruso in the AstDyS-2 database (English)
- ↑ Small planets discovered on Tautenburger Platten on the website of Freimut Börngen
- ↑ The Mercury crater Caruso in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS (English)