(5230) Asahina
Asteroid (5230) Asahina |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 2.3994 AU |
eccentricity | 0.3731 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 1.5040 AU - 3.2947 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 20.6978 ° |
Sidereal period | 3.72 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 19.22 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Rotation period | 89.3 h |
Absolute brightness | 13.4 mag |
Spectral class | SMASSII: S. |
history | |
Explorer | Jeff T. Alu |
Date of discovery | March 10, 1988 |
Another name | 1988 EF, 1983 VX |
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. |
(5230) Asahina is a Mars orbit asteroid of the main belt which was discovered on March 10, 1988 by the American amateur astronomer Jeff T. Alu at the Palomar Observatory ( IAU code 675).
The asteroid was named after the Japanese conductor and Bruckner interpreter Takashi Asahina , who founded the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra in 1947 and directed it until his death in 2001.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Asahina: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Asahina in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (5230) Asahina in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).