(7629) Foros
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Asteroid (7629) Foros |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Inner main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Hertha family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3662 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2333 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.8142 AU - 2.9182 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 1.8852 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 345.0051 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 25.3221 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.64 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.36 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.2 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Nikolai Tschernych |
| Date of discovery | 19th August 1977 |
| Another name | 1977 QK 1 , 1948 TB 2 , 1977 RW 2 , 1977 TQ 2 , 1988 TF |
| 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. | |
(7629) Foros is an asteroid of the main inner belt that was discovered by the Soviet astronomer Nikolai Tschernych on August 19, 1977 at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj ( IAU code 095). There had already been an unconfirmed sighting of the asteroid on October 11, 1948 with the provisional designation 1948 TB 2 at the Crimean Observatory in Simejis .
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 (7629) Foros are almost identical to those of four smaller asteroids, assuming the absolute magnitude of 16.6, 17.2, 18.2 and 17.8 versus 14.2 : (137505) 1999 VZ 21 , (148477) 2001 FS 99 , (311243) 2005 CT 68 and (339734) 2005 SR 44 .
(7629) Foros was named on May 4, 1999 after Foros , a health resort on the south coast of the Crimean peninsula . A Martian crater was named after Foros as early as 1979 : Foros Martian Crater .
Web links
- (7629) Foros in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (7629) Foros 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 (7629) Foros 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 (7629) Foros on minorplanetcenter.net (English)
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)
- ^ The Foros Martian crater in the IAU's Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature (WGPSN) / USGS