(8125) Tyndareus
Asteroid (8125) Tyndareus |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Jupiter Trojan (L 4 ) |
Major semi-axis | 5.1702 AU |
eccentricity | 0.0479 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 4.9227 AU - 5.4176 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 13.1246 ° |
Sidereal period | 11.76 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 13.12 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 11.0 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Cornelis van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld |
Date of discovery | September 30, 1973 |
Another name | 5493 T-2, 1989 CT 6 , 1989 ED 12 , 1990 EE 1 |
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. |
(8125) Tyndareus is an asteroid belonging to the group of Jupiter Trojans . This describes asteroids that move around the sun on the Lagrange points on Jupiter's orbit .
(8125) Tyndareus was discovered on September 30, 1973 by the Dutch astronomers Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at the Palomar Observatory . It is assigned to the Lagrangian point L 4 .
The asteroid is named after the mythological figure of Tyndareus , the king of Sparta and father of Clytaimnestra and Helena .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Tyndareus: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Tyndareus in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (8125) Tyndareus in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).