(5017) Tenchi
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Asteroid (5017) Tenchi |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Hanskya family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1492 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0758 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.9105 AU - 3.3879 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 16.1722 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 141.1380 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 248.3488 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.59 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.77 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | approx. 22 km |
| Absolute brightness | 12.2 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Hiroki Kōsai Kiichirō Furukawa |
| Date of discovery | 18th February 1977 |
| Another name | 1977 DS 2 , 1988 BV 3 |
| 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. | |
(5017) Tenchi is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 18 February 1977 by the Japanese astronomer Hiroki Kosai and Kiichiro Furukawa at the Kiso Observatory ( IAU code 381) in Kiso at Mount Ontake was discovered.
The asteroid is a member of the Hanskya family, a group of asteroids named after (1118) Hanskya .
It was named after Tenji (626-676), the 38th Tennō , who in 660 created the first water clock ( Klepsydra ) in Japan.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Tenchi: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Tenchi in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (5017) Tenchi in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family affiliation of (5017) Tenchi in the AstDyS-2 database (English)