(7208) Ashurbanipal
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Asteroid (7208) Ashurbanipal |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.1675 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0723 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0107 AU - 2.3242 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.1942 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 105.0717 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 124.4934 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.19 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 20.23 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.2 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld , Tom Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | September 24, 1960 |
| Another name | 2645 PL , 1994 DB |
| 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. | |
(7208) Ashurbanipal is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on September 24, 1960 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld . The discovery came about as part of the Palomar-Leiden survey , during which Tom Gehrels examined field plates recorded at the University of Leiden with the 120 cm Oschin Schmidt telescope of the Palomar observatory .
The asteroid was named after Aššur-bāni-apli (669 BC – 631/627 BC), who was the 83rd king of the Assyrian Empire and who created an important library in Nineveh that has rendered invaluable services to modern Assyriology .
See also
Web links
- (7208) Ashurbanipal in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- Asteroid Ashurbanipal in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)
- Asteroid Ashurbanipal: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA