(85197) Ginkgo
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Asteroid (85197) Ginkgo |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Inner main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.1924 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1539 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.8551 AU - 2.5298 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.5918 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 323.3842 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 64.7425 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.25 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 20.11 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 16.8 likes |
| history | |
| Explorer | Freimut Börngen , Lutz D. Schmadel |
| Date of discovery | 5th October 1991 |
| Another name | 1991 TG 5 , 1994 RH 14 |
| 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. | |
(85197) Ginkgo is an asteroid of the inner main belt , which was discovered by the German astronomers Freimut Börngen and Lutz D. Schmadel on October 5, 1991 at the Thuringian State Observatory in Tautenburg ( IAU code 033).
The orbit of the asteroid was secured in 2004 so that numbering could be assigned. (85197) Ginkgo was named after Ginkgo ( Ginkgo biloba ), a tree species , at the suggestion of Freimut Börngen . The designation received general validity through publication by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) on April 7, 2005.
Web links
- (85197) Ginkgo in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (85197) Ginkgo 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 of (85197) Ginkgo according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Small planets discovered on Tautenburger Platten on the website of Freimut Börngen