(6293) Upper Palatinate
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Asteroid (6293) Upper Palatinate |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Inner main belt |
| Major semi-axis | 2.255 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.16 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.894 AU - 2.616 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 0.9 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 138.2 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 267.6 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.39 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 2.568 (± 0.565) km |
| Albedo | 0.322 (± 0.179) |
| Absolute brightness | 15.0 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Freimut Börngen |
| Date of discovery | November 26, 1987 |
| Another name | 1987 WV 1 , 1980 TW 12 , 1990 RA 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. | |
(6293) Upper Palatinate is an asteroid in the inner main belt that was discovered by the German astronomer Freimut Börngen on November 26, 1987 at the Tautenburg Observatory ( IAU code 033) in Thuringia .
The asteroid was named after the region and the administrative district of Upper Palatinate in eastern Bavaria .
Web links
- (6293) Upper Palatinate in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (6293) Upper Palatinate 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 (6923) Upper Palatinate according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)