(75058) Hanau

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Asteroid
(75058) Hanau
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  May 23, 2014 ( JD 2,456,800.5)
Orbit type Middle main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis 2.5703  AU
eccentricity 0.0624
Perihelion - aphelion 2.4099 AU - 2.7306 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 2.8810 °
Length of the ascending node 30.9010 °
Argument of the periapsis 356.9163 °
Sidereal period 4.12 a
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness 16.1 mag
history
Explorer Saji Observatory
Date of discovery November 6, 1999
Another name 1999 VK 5 , 1993 FT 79
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(75058) Hanau is an asteroid of the main middle belt that was discovered on November 6, 1999 at the Japanese Saji Observatory ( IAU code 867) in Tottori . The asteroid had already been sighted on March 21 and 22, 1993 under the provisional designation 1993 FT 79 at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory in Chile .

According to the SMASS classification ( Small Main-Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey ), a spectroscopic study by Gianluca Masi , Sergio Foglia and Richard P. Binzel at (75058) Hanau assumed a dark surface, so it could, roughly speaking, be around trade a C asteroid .

(75058) Hanau was named on December 10, 2011 after the Hessian city ​​of Hanau . Hanau has had a town partnership with the Japanese city of Tottori since 2001. The naming took place on the tenth anniversary of the town twinning.

A piece of the London DJ project Vis-à-Vis was named after the asteroid: (75058) Hanau .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Observations from (75058) Hanau on minorplanetcenter.net (English)
  2. ^ Gianluca Masi, Sergio Foglia, Richard P. Binzel: Search for Unusual Spectroscopic Candidates Among 40313 minor planets from the 3rd Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Moving Object Catalog . (English)
  3. subdivision of asteroids to S-types, C-types and V-types (English)