(6892) Lana
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Asteroid (6892) Lana |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.5686 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2699 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.8754 AU - 3.2617 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.2583 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 62.2681 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 285.2359 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | June 7, 2019 |
| Sidereal period | 4.12 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 15.2 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
E. Helin S. J. Bus |
| Date of discovery | November 7, 1978 |
| Another name | 1978 VG 8 , 1982 XR 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. | |
(6892) Lana is an asteroid of the main belt , which from the November 7, 1978 American US astronomer Eleanor Helin and scolding John bus at the Palomar Observatory ( IAU code 675) in California was discovered.
The asteroid was named on June 9, 2017 after the Italian Jesuit priest Francesco Lana Terzi (1631–1687), who wrote a draft for an airship as early as 1670 and developed the idea of Braille .
See also
Web links
- (6892) Lana in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (6892) Lana in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- Discovery Circumstances of (6892) Lana that according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)