(6524) Baalke
Asteroid (6524) Baalke |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 2.3514 AU |
eccentricity | 0.0930 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.1327 AU - 2.5702 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 22.2004 ° |
Sidereal period | 3.61 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 19.42 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 13.1 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Eleanor F. Helin |
Date of discovery | January 9, 1992 |
Another name | 1992 AO |
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. |
(6524) Baalke is an asteroid of the main belt , which from January 9, 1992 American US astronomer Eleanor F. Helin at Palomar Observatory ( IAU code was discovered 675).
The asteroid was named after Ron C. Baalke , an engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory who works on telemetry systems for the Deep Space Network . Since 1989 he has been increasingly involved in public relations at NASA and oversees numerous websites.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Baalke: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Baalke in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (6524) Baalke in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).