(6954) Potemkin
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Asteroid (6954) Potemkin |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Inner main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.1834 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1373 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.8836 AU - 2.4832 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.1389 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 60.6682 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 217.9586 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.23 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 20.15 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.2 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | L. Shuravlowa |
| Date of discovery | 4th September 1987 |
| Another name | 1987 RB 6 , 1981 XW 1 , 1983 EN 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. | |
(6954) Potemkin is an asteroid of the main inner belt that was discovered on September 4, 1987 by the Ukrainian astronomer Lyudmyla Shuravlowa at the Crimean Observatory in Nauchnyj ( IAU code 095).
The asteroid was named on July 26, 2000 after the Russian prince , field marshal and confidante and lover of the Russian tsarina Catherine the Great Grigory Alexandrowitsch Potjomkin (1739-1791), to whom the Potemkin villages named after him are incorrectly assigned .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Potemkin: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (6954) Potemkin in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (6954) Potemkin in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).