(5115) Frimout
Asteroid (5115) Frimout |
|
---|---|
Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Asteroid family | Eos family |
Major semi-axis | 3.0189 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1334 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6163 AU - 3.4216 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 8.6678 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 258.2277 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 97.9922 ° |
Sidereal period | 5.25 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 17.13 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Medium diameter | approx. 14 km |
Absolute brightness | 12.1 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
Date of discovery | February 13, 1988 |
Another name | 1988 CD 4 , 1985 QR 3 , 1990 MS |
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. |
(5115) Frimout is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 13 February 1988 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( observatory code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile was discovered.
The asteroid is named after the Belgian astronaut Dirk Frimout (* 1941) who was the first Belgian to fly into space on March 24, 1992 with the space shuttle Atlantis as part of the space shuttle mission STS-45 .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Frimout: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Frimout in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (5115) Frimout in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).