(6481) Tenzing

Asteroid (6481) Tenzing
Properties of the orbit ( animation ) Epoch: 4th November 2013 ( JD 2,456,600.5)
Orbit type	Inner main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis	2.2803 AU
eccentricity	0.1814
Perihelion - aphelion	1.8668 AU - 2.6939 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane	6.2850 °
Length of the ascending node	324.1515 °
Argument of the periapsis	311.1143 °
Sidereal period	3.44 a
Mean orbital velocity	19.73 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness	13.3 mag
history
Explorer	Antonin Mrkos
Date of discovery	September 9, 1988
Another name	1988 RH ₂ , 1950 QK, 1978 UC ₃ , 1981 SV ₅ , 1987 DA, 1994 EP ₂
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(6481) Tenzing is an asteroid of the main inner belt , which was discovered on September 9, 1988 by the Czech astronomer Antonín Mrkos at the Kle Observ observatory ( IAU code 046) near Český Krumlov . There had already been several unconfirmed sightings of the asteroid: on August 17, 1950 (with the provisional designation 1950 QK) at the Goethe Link Observatory in Indiana , in October 1978 (1978 UC ₃ ) at the Palomar Observatory in California , on August 28 , 1950 September 1981 (1981 SV ₅ ) at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj and on February 20, 1987 (1987 DA) at the observatory in the Japanese city of Toyota .

Mean solar distance ( major semi-axis ), eccentricity and inclination of the orbit plane of the asteroid are similar to the orbital data of the members of 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 asteroid is named after the Nepalese mountaineer Tenzing Norgay (1914-1986), who was the first to climb Mount Everest in 1953 together with Edmund Hillary , after whom the asteroid (3130) Hillary is named . (6481) Tenzing was named at the suggestion of the Czech astronomer Miloš Tichý by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) on November 23, 1999.

Web links

(6481) Tenzing in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
(6481) Tenzing in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)