(40106) heirs
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Asteroid (40106) heirs |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.9336 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1554 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.4776 AU - 3.3896 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 7.3392 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 243.4097 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 42.7850 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.02 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.39 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 15.3 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Petr Pravec |
| Date of discovery | August 20, 1998 |
| Another name | 1998 QW 5 |
| 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. | |
(40106) Erben is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on August 20, 1998 by the Czech astronomer Petr Pravec at the Ondřejov observatory ( IAU code 557) on the Manda mountain in Ondřejov .
The asteroid was on 6 January 2003 after the Czech archivists, historians and writers of romance Karel Jaromír Erben named (1811-1870), best known as a collector of Czech folk tales and folk songs.
See also
Web links
- (40106) Heirs in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (40106) Heirs in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- Discovery Circumstances of (40106) heirs according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)