(42776) Casablanca
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Asteroid (42776) Casablanca |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Veritas family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1619 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0406 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 3.0336 AU - 3.2903 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 10.3066 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 69.2740 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 139.0012 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.62 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.2 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | EW Elst |
| Date of discovery | October 18, 1998 |
| Another name | 1998 UV 26 , 1999 XA 175 |
| 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. | |
(42776) Casablanca is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 18 October 1998 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( IAU code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile was discovered.
The asteroid belongs to the Veritas family, a group of asteroids named after (490) Veritas and probably formed 8.3 (± 0.5) million years ago when an asteroid with a diameter of 150 km broke apart.
The celestial body was named on March 21, 2008 after Casablanca , the largest city in Morocco , which lies south of the capital Rabat directly on the Atlantic coast and is also the country's most important port.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Casablanca: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (42776) Casablanca in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (42776) Casablanca in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)
- ↑ Kenneth A. Farley , David Vokrouhlický , William Bottke , David Nesvorný : A late Miocene dust shower from the break-up of an asteroid in the main belt . Nature , Vol. 439, pp. 295ff, January 19, 2006 (English)