(72060) Hohhot
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Asteroid (72060) Hohhot |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Inner main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Hertha family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4213 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1362 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0914 AU - 2.7512 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.3215 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 160.0718 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 323.2722 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | March 2, 2016 |
| Sidereal period | 3.77 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 15.3 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | William Kwong Yu Yeung |
| Date of discovery | December 23, 2000 |
| Another name | 2000 YG 16 , 1998 KB 31 , 1999 PF 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. | |
(72060) Hohhot is an asteroid of the main inner belt . It was discovered on December 23, 2000 by the Canadian astronomer of Hong Kong origin William Kwong Yu Yeung at the Desert Beaver Observatory near Eloy , Arizona ( IAU code 919). It previously had unconfirmed sightings of the asteroid on May 22 and 24, 1998 (1998 KB 31 ) at the Lincoln Laboratory Experimental Test System in Socorro , New Mexico, and on August 8 and 9, 1999 (1999 PF 1 ) at the Prescott Observatory in given near Prescott , Arizona.
The asteroid belongs to the Nysa group, a group of asteroids named after (44) Nysa (also called the Hertha family, after (135) Hertha ). The timeless (non- osculating ) orbital elements of (72060) Hohhot are almost identical to those of the larger one, assuming the absolute brightness of 14.7 compared to 15.2, asteroids (21823) 1999 TX 72 .
(72060) Hohhot was named after Hohhot on July 30, 2007 , the capital of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China .
Web links
- (72060) Hohhot in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (72060) Hohhot 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 (72060) Hohhot according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Observations from (72060) Hohhot on minorplanetcenter.net (English)
- ↑ The family affiliation of (72060) Hohhot in the AstDyS-2 database (English)