(6129) Democritus
Asteroid (6129) Democritus |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Asteroid family | Dora family |
Major semi-axis | 2.7950 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1680 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.3254 AU - 3.2646 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 6.5270 ° |
Sidereal period | 4.67 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 17.82 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Medium diameter | 15.69 km |
Albedo | 0.0863 |
Absolute brightness | 12.8 mag |
Spectral class | SMASSII: Ch |
history | |
Explorer | EW Elst |
Date of discovery | 4th September 1989 |
Another name | 1989 RB 2 , 1950 DC, 1973 AZ |
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. |
(6129) Democritus is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 4 September 1989 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 Democritus , a philosopher of ancient Greece who is counted among the pre-Socratics .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Demokritos: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Demokritos in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (6129) Demokritos in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).