(6677) Renoir
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Asteroid (6677) Renoir |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main outer belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.2468 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0951 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.9380 AU - 3.5556 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 14.6512 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 32.0805 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 313.5887 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | May 30, 2018 |
| Sidereal period | 5.85 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.52 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 18.573 km (± 0.187) |
| Albedo | 0.141 (± 0.009) |
| Absolute brightness | 12.3 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld , Tom Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | October 16, 1977 |
| Another name | 3045 T-3 , 1989 UT 1 |
| 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. | |
(6677) Renoir is an asteroid of the outer main belt , which was discovered on October 16, 1977 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld . The discovery took place during the 3rd Trojan survey, during which Tom Gehrels surveyed field plates recorded by the 120 cm Oschin Schmidt telescope of the Palomar observatory at the University of Leiden , 17 years after the start of the Palomar-Leiden- Surveys .
The asteroid was on April 4, 1996 under the French painters of the Impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir named (1841-1919). As early as 1985, an impact crater on the southern hemisphere of the planet Mercury was named after Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Mercury crater Renoir .
See also
Web links
- (6677) Renoir in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (6677) Renoir 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 (6677) Renoir according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Mercury crater Renoir in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS