(6258) Rodin
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Asteroid (6258) Rodin |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Inner main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.2597 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0822 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0738 AU - 2.4455 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.0536 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 133.0456 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 4.9007 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | September 25, 2015 |
| Sidereal period | 3.40 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.81 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 4.003 (± 0.153) km |
| Albedo | 0.400 (± 0.068) |
| Absolute brightness | 13.6 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld , Tom Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | September 30, 1973 |
| Another name | 3070 T-2 , 1975 EG 6 , 1990 RU 14 |
| 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. | |
(6258) Rodin is an asteroid of the inner main belt , which was discovered on September 30, 1973 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld . The discovery was made during the 2nd Trojan survey, during which Tom Gehrels surveyed field plates recorded with the 120 cm Oschin Schmidt telescope of the Palomar observatory at the University of Leiden , 13 years after the start of the Palomar-Leiden- Surveys .
The Italian astronomer Vincenzo Zappalà defined in a publication from 1995 (et al.) That (6258) Rodin belonged to the Flora family, a large group of asteroids named after (8) Flora . Asteroids of this family move in a 4: 9 orbital resonance with the planet Mars around the sun . The group is also called the Ariadne family, after the asteroid (43) Ariadne .
The mean diameter of the asteroid was calculated to be 4.003 (± 0.153) kilometers and the albedo to be 0.400 (± 0.068).
(6258) Rodin was named on March 5, 1996 after the French sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). His works The Citizens of Calais (1889), The Kiss (1886) and The Thinker (1880) were particularly emphasized in the dedication . An impact crater on the northern hemisphere of the planet Mercury was named after Rodin in 1976 : Mercury crater Rodin .
Web links
- (6258) Rodin in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (6258) Rodin in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)
- Discovery Circumstances of (6258) Rodin according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)