(6973) Karajan
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Asteroid (6973) Karajan |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.6545 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1534 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.2472 AU - 3.0618 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.9238 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 144.1386 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 91.4140 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.32 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 7.795 (± 0.164) km |
| Albedo | 0.085 (± 0.012) |
| Absolute brightness | 14.1 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | S. Ueda , H. Kaneda |
| Date of discovery | April 27, 1992 |
| Another name | 1992 HK, 1976 UH 13 , 1979 HS 4 , 1983 EF 4 , 1983 FX |
| 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. | |
(6973) Karajan is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 27 April 1992 by the Japanese astronomer Seiji Ueda and Hiroshi Kaneda at the observatory in Kushiro ( Observatories code was discovered 399).
The asteroid was named on September 26, 2007 after the Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan (1908–1989), who was chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic for 35 years .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Karajan: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (6973) Karajan in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (6973) Karajan in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).