(606) Brangäne
Asteroid (606) Brangäne |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Asteroid family | Brangäne family |
Major semi-axis | 2.5873 AU |
eccentricity | 0.2198 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0187 AU - 3.1558 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 8.6206 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 318.7159 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 57.3759 ° |
Time of passage of the perihelion | 5th January 2015 |
Sidereal period | 4.16 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 18.51 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Medium diameter | (35.5 ± 2.2) km |
Albedo | 0.0986 |
Rotation period | 12.295 h |
Absolute brightness | 10.2 mag |
Spectral class | K SMASSII |
history | |
Explorer | August Kopff |
Date of discovery | September 18, 1906 |
Another name | 1906 VB |
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. |
(606) Brangäne is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on September 18, 1906 by the German astronomer August Kopff at the State Observatory in Heidelberg-Königstuhl ( IAU code 024).
The asteroid is named after the Brangäne family.
It was named after a character from the opera Tristan and Isolde by Richard Wagner .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Brangäne: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (606) Brangäne in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (606) Brangäne in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family affiliation of (606) Brangäne in the AstDyS-2 database (English)