(56000) Mesopotamia
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Asteroid (56000) Mesopotamia |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Inner main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3691 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1697 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.9670 AU - 2.7712 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 8.3687 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 24.9824 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 68.2927 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.65 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.35 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 15.5 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | September 20, 1998 |
| Another name | 1998 SN 144 , 2000 GS 77 |
| 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. | |
(56000) Mesopotamia is an asteroid of the main inner belt discovered by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst on September 20, 1998 at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory in Chile ( IAU code 809).
The asteroid was named after Mesopotamia on November 10, 2003 .
Web links
- (56000) Mesopotamia in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (56000) Mesopotamia in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)
- Discovery Circumstances of (56000) Mesopotamia according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)