(6401) Roentgen
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Asteroid (6401) Roentgen |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Eunomia family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.6792 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1244 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.3458 AU - 3.0125 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 13.476 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4,385 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.20 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | ? km |
| Albedo | ? |
| Rotation period | ? H |
| Absolute brightness | 12.7 mag |
| Spectral class | ? |
| history | |
| Explorer | C. S. and E. Shoemaker , D. H. Levy |
| Date of discovery | April 15, 1991 |
| Another name | 1991 GB 2 , 1973 DM, 1983 OF |
| 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. | |
(6401) Roentgen is an asteroid of the main belt , the American US on 15 April 1991 by the team of astronomers Carolyn Jean Spellman Shoemaker , Eugene Shoemaker and David H. Levy at Mount Palomar was discovered.
The name of the asteroid was chosen in honor of the German physicist and Nobel Prize winner Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen .