(5015) Litke
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Asteroid (5015) Litke |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.1752 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1246 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.9042 AU - 2.4462 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.3538 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 145.1714 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 262.5995 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.21 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 20.19 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.0 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova |
| Date of discovery | 1st November 1975 |
| Another name | 1975 VP , 1975 VH 10 , 1978 PZ 1 , 1980 DE 5 , 1981 NS, 1983 CQ 4 , 1985 YR |
| 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. | |
(5015) Litke is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on November 1, 1975 by the Soviet astronomer Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova at the Crimean Observatory ( IAU code 095) in Nautschnyj .
The asteroid was named on February 11, 1998 after the Russian naval officer, circumnavigator , explorer and writer Friedrich Benjamin von Lütke (1797–1882), who undertook several successful expeditions in the Arctic .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Litke: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Litke in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (5015) Litke in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).