(4579) Puccini
Asteroid (4579) Puccini |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Asteroid family | Massalia family |
Major semi-axis | 2.3986 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1543 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0284 AU - 2.7688 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.2137 ° |
Sidereal period | 3.71 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 19.22 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 13.7 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Freimut Börngen |
Date of discovery | January 11, 1989 |
Another name | 1989 AT 6 , 1978 EW 5 , 1979 QE 3 , 1986 KH |
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. |
(4579) Puccini is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on January 11, 1989 by the German astronomer Freimut Börngen at the Thuringian State Observatory Tautenburg ( IAU code 033) in Thuringia .
The timeless (non- osculating ) orbital elements of (4579) Puccini are almost identical to those of the smaller one, assuming the absolute brightness of 15.3 versus 14.3, asteroids (11000) 1978 VE 6 .
(4579) Puccini was by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), an Italian composer of the fin de siècle , named.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Puccini: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (4579) Puccini in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (4579) Puccini 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)