(5370) Taranis
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Asteroid (5370) Taranis |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Cupid type |
| Major semi-axis | 3.3328 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.6342 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.2191 AU - 5.4465 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 19.0908 ° |
| Sidereal period | 6.08 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.29 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 3.6 km |
| Absolute brightness | 15.7 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Alain Maury |
| Date of discovery | 2nd September 1986 |
| Another name | 1986 RA |
| 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. | |
(5370) Taranis is an asteroid of the Cupid type that was discovered by the French astronomer Alain Maury at the Palomar Observatory ( IAU code 675) on September 2, 1986 . It is one of the rare asteroids that has a 2: 1 orbital resonance with Jupiter .
The asteroid is named after the Celtic god of thunder, Taranis .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Taranis: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Taranis in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (5370) Taranis in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Roig et al. , D. Nesvorny, S. Ferraz-Mello: Asteroids in the 2: 1 resonance with Jupiter: dynamics and size distribution . In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . 335, No. 2, 2002, pp. 417-431. bibcode : 2002MNRAS.335..417R . doi : 10.1046 / j.1365-8711.2002.05635.x .