(4850) Palestrina
Asteroid (4850) Palestrina |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Asteroid family | Koronis family |
Major semi-axis | 2.8785 AU |
eccentricity | 0.0739 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6658 AU - 3.0911 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 1.8812 ° |
Sidereal period | 4.88 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 17.55 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 12.7 mag |
history | |
Explorer | F. Börngen |
Date of discovery | October 27, 1973 |
Another name | 1973 UJ 5 , 1988 XZ 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. |
(4850) Palestrina is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on October 27, 1973 by the German astronomer Freimut Börngen at the Thuringian state observatory in Tautenburg ( IAU code 033).
It was named in honor of the Italian composer and church musician Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1514–1594).
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Palestrina: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Palestrina in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (4850) Palestrina in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).