(6062) Vespa
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Asteroid (6062) Vespa |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Themis family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.2105 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1601 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6964 AU - 3.7245 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.7959 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 116.8341 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 155.0459 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.75 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.62 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | approx. 17 km |
| Absolute brightness | 12.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Norman G. Thomas |
| Date of discovery | May 6, 1983 |
| Another name | 1983 JQ , 1982 DZ 1 |
| 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. | |
(6062) Vespa is a main outer belt asteroid discovered on May 6, 1983 by US astronomer Norman G. Thomas at Anderson Mesa Station ( IAU code 688) of the Lowell Observatory in Coconino County , Arizona .
It was named on April 4, 1996 after the Vespa , a motor scooter from the Italian company Piaggio , which is one of the world's best known and most popular scooter types and which celebrated its 50th anniversary in June 1996.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Vespa: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Vespa in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (6062) Vespa in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).