(6051) Anaximenes
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Asteroid (6051) Anaximenes |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1777 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1455 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.7154 AU - 3.6401 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 18.1128 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 133.9015 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 112.0368 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.66 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.72 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 8.83 ± 0.07 km |
| Albedo | 0.299 ± 0.034 |
| Absolute brightness | 12.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | EW Elst |
| Date of discovery | January 30, 1992 |
| Another name | 1992 BX 1 , 1981 CP |
| 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. | |
(6051) Anaximenes is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 30 January 1992 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( IAU code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile was discovered.
It was named in honor of Anaximenes of Miletus (approx. 585 BC - approx. 525 BC), a natural philosopher and astronomer of ancient Greece, who was counted among the pre-Socratics .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Anaximenes: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Anaximenes in the Small-Body Database of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (6051) Anaximenes in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).