(5059) Saroma
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Asteroid (5059) Saroma |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Eunomia family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.5935 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1336 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.2471 AU - 2.9398 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 12.6401 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 295.3413 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 157.5101 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.18 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.49 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | approx. 10 km |
| Absolute brightness | 12.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Kin Endate Kazurō Watanabe |
| Date of discovery | January 11, 1988 |
| Another name | 1988 AF , 1986 SF 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. | |
(5059) Saroma is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 11 January 1988 by the Japanese astronomer Kin EnDate and Kazuro Watanabe at Kitami Observatory ( IAU code 400) in Kitami in the sub-prefecture Okhotsk was discovered.
The asteroid belongs to the Eunomia family, a group named after (15) Eunomia , to which probably five percent of the asteroids in the main belt belong.
The celestial body was named after Lake Saroma on the island of Hokkaidō , the third largest inland lake in Japan.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Saroma: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Saroma in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (5059) Saroma in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family affiliation of (5059) Saroma in the AstDyS-2 database (English)