(9241) Rosfranklin
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Asteroid (9241) Rosfranklin |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt |
| Asteroid family | Eos family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.0502 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1233 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6741 AU - 3.4263 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 12.4264 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 121.5839 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 232.8442 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.33 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.05 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | approx. 12 km |
| Absolute brightness | 12.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | John Broughton |
| Date of discovery | August 10, 1997 |
| Another name | 1997 PE 6 , 1980 JB, 1982 UX 2 |
| 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. | |
(9241) Rosfranklin is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 10 August 1997 by the Australian amateur astronomer John Broughton by its private Reedy Creek Observatory ( IAU code 428) in Queensland was discovered.
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.
(9241) Rosfranklin was named on January 25, 2005 after the British biochemist and specialist in X-ray structure analysis Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958), whose research contributed significantly to the elucidation of the double helix structure of DNA .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Rosfranklin: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Rosfranklin in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9241) Rosfranklin in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family affiliation of (9241) Rosfranklin in the AstDyS-2 database (English)
- ↑ David Vokrouhlický , Miroslav Brož , Alessandro Morbidelli , William Bottke , David Nesvorný , Daniel Lazzaro, Andy Rivkin: Yarkovsky footprints in the Eos family ( PDF , English)