(39428) Emilybrontë
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Asteroid (39428) Emilybrontë |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Hertha family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4664 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2026 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.9667 AU - 2.9661 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.3814 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 73.8130 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 305.4891 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.87 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.96 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 15.0 mag |
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| Explorer |
Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld , Tom Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | 29th September 1973 |
| Another name | 4169 T-2 , 2000 QN 183 |
| 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. | |
(39428) Emilybrontë is an asteroid of the main belt , which was discovered on September 29, 1973 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld . The discovery was made during the Second Trojan Survey of 1973, during which Tom Gehrels scanned field plates recorded at the University of Leiden with the 120 cm Oschin Schmidt telescope of the Palomar Observatory .
The asteroid belongs to the Nysa group, a group of asteroids named after (44) Nysa (also called the Hertha family, after (135) Hertha ). It is in a 1: 2 orbit resonance with the planet Mars .
(39428) Emilybrontë was named on February 19, 2006 after the British writer Emily Brontë (1818-1848), who was known for her only novel Wuthering Heights (German: Sturmhöhe ) published under the pseudonym Ellis Bell .
See also
Web links
- (39428) Emilybrontë in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (39428) Emilybrontë in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- Discovery Circumstances of (39428) Emilybrontë 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 status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)
- ↑ Asteroids inside the resonance 1: 2 with Mars . Table by Tabare Gallardo (English)