(6305) Heligoland
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Asteroid (6305) Heligoland |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Inner main belt |
| Major semi-axis | 2.2195 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1007 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.9960 AU - 2.4429 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.6596 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 130.2096 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 355.7954 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.31 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.99 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 3.197 ± 0.108 km |
| Albedo | 0.274 ± 0.034 |
| Absolute brightness | 14.6 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Freimut Börngen |
| Date of discovery | April 6, 1989 |
| Another name | 1989 GE 8 , 1976 JE 2 , 1992 AB 3 , 1993 OM 11 |
| 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. | |
(6305) Helgoland is an asteroid of the inner main belt , which was discovered on April 6, 1989 by the German astronomer Freimut Börngen at the Thuringian State Observatory Tautenburg ( IAU code 033) in Thuringia .
The asteroid was named after the German island of Helgoland .
See also
Web links
- (6305) Helgoland in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (6305) Helgoland 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 (6305) Heligoland according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)