(8052) Novalis

Asteroid (8052) Novalis
Properties of the orbit ( animation ) Epoch:  June 27, 2015 ( JD 2,457,200.5)
Orbit type	Main outer belt asteroid
Asteroid family	Eos family
Major semi-axis	3.0338  AU
eccentricity	0.0516
Perihelion - aphelion	2.8828 AU - 3.1847 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane	9.0058 °
Length of the ascending node	213.7658 °
Argument of the periapsis	68.8740 °
Sidereal period	5.28 a
Mean orbital velocity	17.11 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness	12.8 mag
history
Explorer	Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld , Tom Gehrels
Date of discovery	September 24, 1960
Another name	2093 PL , 1976 UG 9
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.

(8052) Novalis is an asteroid of the outer main belt , which 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 belongs to the Eos family , a group of asteroids which typically have large semiaxes from 2.95 to 3.1 AU , bounded inward by the Kirkwood gap of the 7: 3 resonance with Jupiter , and orbital inclinations between 8 ° and 12 °. The group is named after the asteroid (221) Eos . The family is believed to have emerged from a collision more than a billion years ago. The timeless (non- osculating ) orbital elements of (8052) Novalis are almost identical to those of three smaller ones, assuming the absolute magnitude of 15.2, 15.1 and 15.8 compared to 12.8, asteroids: (90362) 2003 HZ ₅₁ , (167957) 2005 EC ₂₄₅ and (302252) 2001 XK ₇₀ .

(8052) Novalis was named on April 2, 1999 after the German writer of early romanticism Novalis .

See also

• List of asteroids

Web links

• (8052) Novalis in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
• (8052) Novalis 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 (8052) Novalis according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ David Vokrouhlický , Miroslav Brož , Alessandro Morbidelli , William Bottke , David Nesvorný , Daniel Lazzaro, Andy Rivkin: Yarkovsky footprints in the Eos family ( PDF , English)
2. ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)