(4827) Dares
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Asteroid (4827) Dares |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Jupiter Trojan (L5) |
| Major semi-axis | 5.1164 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0464 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 4.8790 AU - 5.3539 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 7.7068 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 242.0730 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 169.0763 ° |
| Sidereal period | 11.57 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 13.16 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Rotation period | 18.995 h |
| Absolute brightness | 10.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Carolyn Shoemaker |
| Date of discovery | 17th August 1988 |
| Another name | 1988 QE |
| 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. | |
(4827) Dares is an asteroid belonging to the group of Jupiter Trojans . This describes asteroids that move around the sun on the Lagrange points on Jupiter's orbit . (4827) Dares was discovered on August 17, 1988 by the American astronomer Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker . It is assigned to the Lagrangian point L5.
The asteroid is named after Dares , a Trojan pugilist and companion of Aeneas .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Dares: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Dares in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (4827) Dares in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).