(6654) Luleå
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Asteroid (6654) Luleå |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main outer belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Hygiea family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1519 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1702 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6155 AU - 3.6884 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 5.9007 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 149.5314 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 276.7953 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.60 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.77 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.2 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Uppsala-ESO Survey of Asteroids and Comets at the La Silla Observatory |
| Date of discovery | February 29, 1992 |
| Another name | 1992 DT 6 , 1990 VW 5 |
| 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. | |
(6654) Luleå is an asteroid of the main outer belt , which was discovered on February 29, 1992 during the Uppsala-ESO Survey of Asteroids and Comets at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory in Chile ( IAU code 809). The asteroid had already been sighted on November 15 and 17, 1990 at the same observatory under the provisional designation 1990 VW 5 .
The asteroid belongs to the Hygiea family, a rather older group of asteroids, as is believed, the largest member of which is the asteroid (10) Hygiea .
(6654) Luleå was named on September 28, 1999 after the northern Swedish city of Luleå .
See also
Web links
- (6654) Luleå in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (6654) Luleå 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 (6654) Luleå according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Observations from (6654) Luleå on minorplanetcenter.net (English)
- ↑ The family membership of (6654) Luleå in the AstDyS-2 database (English)