(3883) Verbano
Asteroid (3883) Verbano |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 2.6111 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1236 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.2882 AU - 2.9339 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 12.8550 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 169.2290 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 181.6609 ° |
Sidereal period | 4.22 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 18.43 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Medium diameter | approx. 12 km |
Rotation period | 50.8 h |
Absolute brightness | 11.7 mag |
history | |
Explorer | NS Tschernych |
Date of discovery | 7th September 1972 |
Another name | 1972 RQ , 1934 RC 1 , 1954 HF, 1966 CX, 1972 TG 5 , 1979 HW 1 , 1979 JD, 1983 ET |
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. |
(3883) Verbano is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on September 7, 1972 by the Russian astronomer Nikolai Stepanowitsch Tschernych at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj ( IAU code 095).
The asteroid was named after the northern Italian lake Lago Verbano , half of which is in Italy and half in the Swiss canton of Ticino .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Verbano: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (3883) Verbano in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (3883) Verbano in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).