(6676) Monet
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Asteroid (6676) Monet |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main outer belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Themis family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1572 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1570 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6616 AU - 3.6527 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 0.9722 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 165.3116 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 338.3973 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.61 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.76 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 10.929 ± 0.194 km |
| Albedo | 0.085 ± 0.019 |
| Rotation period | 3.48 h |
| Absolute brightness | 13.3 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld , Tom Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | 29th September 1973 |
| Another name | 2083 T-2 , 1975 GJ 5 , 1981 AL 2 , 1987 EK, 1987 FM |
| 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. | |
(6676) Monet is an asteroid of the main outer belt that was discovered on September 29, 1973 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld . The discovery was made during the 2nd Trojan survey, during which Tom Gehrels surveyed field plates recorded with the 120 cm Oschin Schmidt telescope of the Palomar observatory at the University of Leiden , 13 years after the start of the Palomar-Leiden- Surveys .
The mean diameter of the asteroid was calculated to be 10.929 ± 0.194 km.
The asteroid belongs to the Themis family, a group of asteroids named after (24) Themis . The timeless (non- osculating ) orbital elements of (6676) Monet are almost identical to those of seven smaller ones (if one considers the absolute brightness of 14.2, 15.1, 15.2, 16.0, 15.8, 16, 4 and 16.2 versus 13.1) asteroids: (22634) 1998 MN 7 , (135495) 2001 XB 58 , (146721) 2001 XF 8 , (188984) 2008 FV 66 , (223975) 2004 XL 179 , (276638 ) 2003 UU 208 and (278413) 2007 RH 48 .
(6676) Monet was named on April 4, 1996 after the French painter Claude Monet . As early as 1979, an impact crater on the northern hemisphere of the planet Mercury was named after Claude Monet: Mercury Crater Monet .
See also
Web links
- (6676) Monet in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (6676) Monet in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)
- ^ Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . Springer, Heidelberg 2012, 6th edition, page 528 (English)
- ↑ The Mercury Crater Monet in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS