(6043) Aurochs
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Asteroid (6043) Aurochs |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Inner main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Vesta family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3656 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1431 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0270 AU - 2.7042 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 6.8910 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 146.1355 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 217.1625 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | April 15, 2017 |
| Sidereal period | 3.64 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.36 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.2 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Satoru Ōtomo |
| Date of discovery | September 9, 1991 |
| Another name | 1991 RK 2 , 1973 SN 5 , 1982 BJ 14 , 1986 EK 3 |
| 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. | |
(6043) aurochs is an asteroid of the inner main belt , which by Japanese amateur astronomers Satoru Ōtomo on 9 September 1991 at his observatory in Kiyosato ( IAU code 894) at Hokuto in Yamanashi Prefecture was discovered. There had already been several unconfirmed sightings of the asteroid: on March 27, 1973 under the provisional designation 1973 SN 5 at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj , on January 30 and 31, 1982 (1982 BJ 14 ) at the Palomar Observatory in California and on March 12, 1986 (1986 level 3 ) at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory in Chile .
The asteroid belongs to the Vesta family , a large group of asteroids named after (4) Vesta , the second largest asteroid and third largest celestial body in the main belt. According to the SMASS classification ( Small Main-Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey ), a spectroscopic study by Gianluca Masi , Sergio Foglia and Richard P. Binzel at (6043) Aurochs assumed a bright surface, so it could, roughly speaking, be around trade an S asteroid .
The timeless (non- osculating ) orbital elements of (6043) Aurochs are almost identical to those of seven smaller ones, if one considers the absolute brightness of 15.9, 16.1, 16.3, 16.9, 16.8, 16, 8 and 17.7 compared to 13.2, asteroids: (40445) 1999 RY 35 , (99694) 2002 JR 29 , (137593) 1999 VM 158 , (263188) 2007 YP 32 , (287857) 2003 SW 255 , (303395 ) 2004 XQ 90 and (316577) 2011 SB 210 .
(6043) Aurochs was named on September 28, 1999 after the aurochs ( Bos primigenius ), a species of cattle that has been exterminated in its wild form and is considered to be the ancestral form of modern domestic cattle . Aurochs is the English-language name for the aurochs.
See also
Web links
- (6043) Aurochs in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (6043) aurochs 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 (6043) Aurochs according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Observations from (6043) Aurochs on minorplanetcenter.net (English)
- ^ 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)
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)