(6068) Brandenburg
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Asteroid (6068) Brandenburg |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Eos family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.0368 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0802 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.7934 AU - 3.2802 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 9.0409 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.29 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.09 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 12.7 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
F. Börngen L. Schmadel |
| Date of discovery | October 10, 1990 |
| Another name | 1990 TJ 2 , 1969 UK 2 , 1985 VQ 2 |
| 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. | |
(6068) Brandenburg is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on October 10, 1990 by the German astronomers Freimut Börngen and Lutz D. Schmadel at the Thuringian state observatory in Tautenburg ( IAU code 033) in the Tautenburg Forest in Thuringia .
It was named by Freimut Börngen after the German state Brandenburg , which completely encloses the federal capital Berlin .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Brandenburg: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Brandenburg in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (6068) Brandenburg in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).