(744) Aguntina
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Asteroid (744) Aguntina |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.168 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.121 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.785 AU - 3.551 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 7.7 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 142.8 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 30.1 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | August 5, 2009 |
| Sidereal period | 5 a 233 d |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.7 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | (59 ± 7) km |
| Albedo | 0.04 |
| Rotation period | 17 h 28 min |
| Absolute brightness | 10.2 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Joseph Rheden |
| Date of discovery | February 26, 1913 |
| Another name | 1913 QW, 1950 TL 4 |
| 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. | |
(744) Aguntina is an asteroid of the main belt , which was discovered on February 26, 1913 by the Austrian astronomer Joseph Rheden in Vienna .
Since Rheden came from Lienz in East Tyrol, he named the asteroid after the Roman city of Aguntum , which was located there and where excavations had taken place in 1912.