(6077) Messner
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Asteroid (6077) Messner |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Agnia family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.7909 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1109 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.4815 AU - 3.1003 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.2989 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 23.6377 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 322.9675 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.66 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.82 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 8.315 km (± 0.135) |
| Albedo | 0.280 (± 0.021) |
| Absolute brightness | 12.6 mag |
| Spectral class | SMASSII: Sq |
| history | |
| Explorer | Z. Vávrová |
| Date of discovery | 3rd October 1980 |
| Another name | 1981 TM , 1954 CG, 1980 TX 9 , 1985 WF, 1989 TV 13 |
| 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. | |
(6077) Messner is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on October 3, 1980 by the Czech astronomer Zdeňka Vávrová at the Kleť Observatory ( IAU code 046) in South Bohemia near the town of Český Krumlov .
The asteroid is a member of the Agnia family, a group of asteroids that were formed no more than 140 million years ago when a large body broke apart and named after their largest member (847) Agnia .
It was named on December 8, 1998 in honor of the South Tyrolean extreme mountaineer , adventurer and book author Reinhold Messner (* 1944), who was the first to climb all 14 eight-thousanders .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family membership of (7684) Marioferrero in the AstDyS-2 database (English)
Web links
- Asteroid Messner: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Messner in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (6077) Messner in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).