(5063) Monteverdi

Asteroid (5063) Monteverdi
Properties of the orbit ( animation ) Epoch:  December 9, 2014 ( JD 2,457,000.5)
Orbit type	Main belt
Asteroid family	Hertha family
Major semi-axis	2.3923  AU
eccentricity	0.2273
Perihelion - aphelion	1.8486 AU - 2.9360 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane	1.5371 °
Length of the ascending node	326.6840 °
Argument of the periapsis	56.1021 °
Sidereal period	3.70 a
Mean orbital velocity	19.26 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness	13.9 likes
history
Explorer	Freimut Börngen
Date of discovery	February 2, 1989
Another name	1989 CJ 5 , 1954 SK, 1991 RU 1
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.

(5063) Monteverdi is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on February 2, 1989 by the German astronomer Freimut Börngen at the Thuringian state observatory in Tautenburg ( IAU code 033) in Thuringia .

The asteroid belongs to the Nysa group, a group of asteroids named after (44) Nysa (also called the Hertha family, after (135) Hertha ).

(5063) Monteverdi was named after the Italian composer , gambist , singer and Catholic priest Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643), whose work accompanied the transition from Renaissance to Baroque music and who was probably the first to compose operas on a large scale .

See also

• List of asteroids

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The family membership of (5063) Monteverdi in the AstDyS-2 database (English)

Web links

• Asteroid Monteverdi: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
• Asteroid Monteverdi in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
• (5063) Monteverdi in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).