(5108) Lübeck

Asteroid (5108) Lübeck
Properties of the orbit ( animation ) Epoch:  December 9, 2014 ( JD 2,457,000.5)
Orbit type	Main belt
Asteroid family	Vesta family
Major semi-axis	2.3050  AU
eccentricity	0.1098
Perihelion - aphelion	2.0520 AU - 2.5580 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane	6.4328 °
Length of the ascending node	327.5350 °
Argument of the periapsis	77.8529 °
Sidereal period	3.50 a
Mean orbital velocity	19.61 km / s
Physical Properties
Rotation period	8.769 h
Absolute brightness	13.7 mag
Spectral class	SMASSII  : S.
history
Explorer	Eric Walter Elst
Date of discovery	August 21, 1987
Another name	1987 QG 2 , 1952 RP, 1952 AQ 1 , 1989 CU
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.

(5108) Lübeck is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 21 August 1987 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( IAU code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile was discovered.

The asteroid belongs to the Vesta family, a large group of asteroids named after (4) Vesta , the second largest asteroid and third largest celestial body in the main belt.

(5108) Lübeck was named after the German composer of the Baroque Vincent Lübeck named (1654-1740), whose work of the North German organ school was associated.

See also

• List of asteroids

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The family membership of (5108) Lübeck in the AstDyS-2 database (English)

Web links

• Asteroid Lübeck: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
• Asteroid Lübeck in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
• (5108) Lübeck in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).