(6239) Minos
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Asteroid (6239) Minos |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Apollo type |
| Major semi-axis | 1.1516 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.4128 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 0.6762 AU - 1.6269 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.9450 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 344.6231 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 239.6771 ° |
| Sidereal period | 1.24 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 27.75 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Rotation period | 3.5558 h |
| Absolute brightness | 18.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
CS Shoemaker, E. M. Shoemaker |
| Date of discovery | August 31, 1989 |
| Another name | 1989 QF |
| 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. | |
(6239) Minos is a near-Earth asteroid of the Apollo type , which was discovered on August 31, 1989 by the American astronomers Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker and Eugene Shoemaker at the Palomar Observatory ( IAU code 675). It crosses the orbits of Mars , Earth and Venus . On August 10, 2010 , it passed the Earth-Moon system at a distance of 0.0985 AU .
The celestial body is named after Minos , the king of Crete from Greek mythology .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Minos: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Minos in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (6239) Minos in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).