(73059) Kaunas
Asteroid (73059) Kaunas |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Inner main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 2.1728 AU |
eccentricity | 0.0860 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 1.9859 AU - 2.3597 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.1759 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 49.4423 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 186.6684 ° |
Sidereal period | 3.20 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 20.21 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 16.3 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Kazimieras Černis , Justas Zdanavičius |
Date of discovery | March 16, 2002 |
Another name | 2002 FO 5 , 1999 KT 20 |
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. |
(73059) Kaunas is an asteroid of the main inner belt discovered by the Lithuanian astronomers Kazimieras Černis and Justas Zdanavičius on March 16, 2002 at the Molėtai Astronomical Observatory in Molėtai , northeast Lithuania, in the Utena district ( IAU code 152). The asteroid had already been sighted on May 18, 1999 under the provisional designation 1999 KT 20 at the Lincoln Laboratory Experimental Test System in Socorro , New Mexico as part of the Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) project.
Mean solar distance ( major semi-axis ), eccentricity and inclination of the orbit plane of the asteroid roughly resemble the orbital data of the members of the Flora family, a large group of asteroids named after (8) Flora . Asteroids of this family move in a 4: 9 orbital resonance with the planet Mars around the sun . The group is also called the Ariadne family, after the asteroid (43) Ariadne .
(73059) Kaunas was named after Kaunas on January 25, 2005 , the second largest city in Lithuania.
See also
Web links
- (73059) Kaunas in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (73059) Kaunas 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 by (73059) Kaunas 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 (73059) Kaunas on minorplanetcenter.net (English)