(5592) Oshima
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Asteroid (5592) Oshima |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Veritas family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1764 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0645 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.9715 AU - 3.3812 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 8.4841 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 231.7457 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 98.7872 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.66 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.72 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 25.43 (± 2.5) km |
| Albedo | 0.0686 (± 0.016) |
| Rotation period | 12.54 h |
| Absolute brightness | 11.7 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Kenzō Suzuki Takeshi Urata |
| Date of discovery | November 14, 1990 |
| Another name | 1990 VB 4 , 1955 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. | |
(5592) Oshima is an asteroid of the main asteroid belt discovered on November 14, 1990 by the Japanese astronomers Kenzō Suzuki and Takeshi Urata at the Toyota Observatory ( IAU code 881) in Japan. The asteroid had already been sighted in September 1955 under the provisional designation 1955 RA at the Goethe Link Observatory in Brooklyn in the US state of Indiana .
The asteroid belongs to the Veritas family, a group of asteroids named after (490) Veritas and probably formed 8.3 (± 0.5) million years ago when an asteroid with a diameter of 150 km broke apart.
The asteroid was named after the Japanese astronomer Yoshiaki Ōshima (* 1952).
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Oshima: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Oshima in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (5592) Oshima in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Observations from (5592) Oshima on minorplanetcenter.net (English)
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)
- ↑ Kenneth A. Farley , David Vokrouhlický , William Bottke , David Nesvorný : A late Miocene dust shower from the break-up of an asteroid in the main belt . Nature , Vol. 439, pp. 295ff, January 19, 2006 (English)