(4782) Gembloux
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Asteroid (4782) Gembloux |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Koronis family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.8373 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0730 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6301 AU - 3.0445 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 1.3426 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 339.2937 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 346.0647 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.78 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.68 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | approx. 12 km |
| Absolute brightness | 12.2 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Léo Houziaux Henri Debehogne |
| Date of discovery | October 14, 1980 |
| Another name | 1980 TH 3 , 1983 GU 1 , 1990 VB 1 |
| 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. | |
(4782) Gembloux is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on October 14, 1980 by the Belgian astronomers Léo Houziaux and Henri Debehogne at the Observatoire de Haute-Provence ( IAU code 511) on a high plateau in south-eastern France .
The asteroid is a member of the Koronis family, a group of asteroids named after (158) Koronis.
It was named after the Belgian industrial city of Gembloux in the province of Namur , whose belfry was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2005.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Gembloux: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Gembloux in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (4782) Gembloux in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family affiliation of (4782) Gembloux in the AstDyS-2 database (English)