(4876) Strabo
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Asteroid (4876) Strabo |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Koronis family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.9097 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0216 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.8469 AU - 2.9725 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 1.3 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4,963 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.46 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | ? km |
| Albedo | ? |
| Rotation period | ? H |
| Absolute brightness | 12.7 mag |
| Spectral class | ? |
| history | |
| Explorer |
CJ van Houten , T. Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | 29th September 1973 |
| Another name | 1133 T-2 , 1976 GS 5 , 1984 YL 5 , 1986 GY 1 , 1988 TF 4 , 1993 UC 9 |
| 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. | |
(4876) Strabo is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on September 29, 1973 by the research team Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Tom Gehrels as part of the Palomar-Leiden Survey .
The asteroid is named after the Greek historian and geographer Strabon .