(5029) Ireland
Asteroid (5029) Ireland |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 2.9346 AU |
eccentricity | 0.0937 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6598 AU - 3.2094 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 19.3600 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 28.7220 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 332.6046 ° |
Sidereal period | 5.03 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 17.38 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Medium diameter | 11.960 (± 0.439) km |
Albedo | 0.235 (± 0.041) |
Absolute brightness | 12.3 mag |
history | |
Explorer |
Carolyn Shoemaker Eugene Shoemaker |
Date of discovery | January 24, 1988 |
Another name | 1988 BL 2 , 1971 SJ 3 , 1986 TB 6 |
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. |
(5029) Ireland is an asteroid of the main belt , which from the January 24, 1988 American US astronomer Carolyn Shoemaker and Eugene Shoemaker at Palomar Observatory ( IAU code 675) in California was discovered.
The asteroid was named after the western European island of Ireland in 1995 to celebrate a year of anniversaries.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Ireland: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Ireland in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (5029) Ireland in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).