(59390) Habermas
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Asteroid (59390) Habermas |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main outer belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.9347 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1039 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6297 AU - 3.2397 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 6.4126 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 27.7399 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 341.3747 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.93 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.38 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.2 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Matteo Santangelo |
| Date of discovery | March 24, 1999 |
| Another name | 1999 FR 21 , 2001 OU 57 |
| 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. | |
(59390) Habermas is an asteroid of the main outer belt discovered on March 24, 1999 by the Italian astronomer Matteo Santangelo at the Osservatorio Astronomico di Monte Agliale ( IAU code 159) in Borgo a Mozzano .
According to the SMASS classification ( Small Main-Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey ), a spectroscopic study by Gianluca Masi , Sergio Foglia and Richard P. Binzel at (59390) Habermas assumed a bright surface, so it could, roughly speaking, be around trade an S asteroid .
The asteroid was named on April 13, 2006 after the German philosopher and sociologist Jürgen Habermas .
Web links
- (59390) Habermas in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (59390) Habermas 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 by (59390) Habermas according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Gianluca Masi, Sergio Foglia, Richard P. Binzel: Search for Unusual Spectroscopic Candidates Among 40313 minor planets from the 3rd Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Moving Object Catalog . (English)
- ↑ subdivision of asteroids to S-types, C-types and V-types (English)