(5869) Tanith
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Asteroid (5869) Tanith |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Cupid type |
| Major semi-axis | 1.8122 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.3212 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.2301 AU - 2.3942 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 17.9313 ° |
| Sidereal period | 2.44 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 22.12 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 17.0 likes |
| history | |
| Explorer | CS Shoemaker |
| Date of discovery | 4th November 1988 |
| Another name | 1988 VN 4 |
| 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. | |
(5869) Tanith is a near-Earth asteroid of the Cupid type , which was discovered on November 4, 1988 by the American astronomer Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker at the Palomar Observatory .
The celestial body is named after the Carthaginian sky goddess Tanit , who was called Caelestis by the Romans .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Tanith: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Tanith in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (5869) Tanith in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).