(5009) Sethos
Asteroid (5009) Seti |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 2.3089 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1570 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 1.9465 AU - 2.6714 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 1.4809 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 44.1315 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 140.4933 ° |
Sidereal period | 3.51 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 19.59 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 13.8 mag |
history | |
Explorer |
Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld , Tom Gehrels |
Date of discovery | September 24, 1960 |
Another name | 2562 PL , 1941 DE, 1957 WU, 1990 BD |
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. |
(5009) Sethos is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on September 24, 1960 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld . The discovery was made as part of the Palomar-Leiden survey , during which Tom Gehrels examined field plates recorded at the University of Leiden with the 120 cm Oschin Schmidt telescope of the Palomar observatory ( IAU code 675) .
It was named on September 1, 1993 after the Egyptian pharaoh of the 19th Dynasty ( New Kingdom ) Seti I , who lived around 1290 to 1279 BC. Ruled. He had a huge temple built in Abydos , of which the mortuary temple of Seti I is still very well preserved. The mortuary temple in Thebes and the hypostyle hall in the Karnak temple in Karnak also fall under his construction activities.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Sethos: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Sethos in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (5009) Sethos in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).