(9379) Dijon
Asteroid (9379) Dijon |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Asteroid family | Koronis family |
Major semi-axis | 2.8437 AU |
eccentricity | 0.0859 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.5994 AU - 3.0880 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 0.9186 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 277.5283 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 121.8952 ° |
Sidereal period | 4.80 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 17.65 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 13.4 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
Date of discovery | August 18, 1993 |
Another name | 1993 QH 3 , 1979 WC 1 , 1987 KN 4 |
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. |
(9379) Dijon is an asteroid of the main belt , which was discovered on August 18, 1993 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the Observatoire de Calern ( IAU code 010) north of Grasse .
The asteroid is a member of the Koronis family, a group of asteroids named after (158) Koronis.
(9379) Dijon was named on April 2, 1999 after Dijon , a city in eastern France , capital of the Côte-d'Or department and the capital of the Burgundy region , known for its mustard .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Dijon: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Dijon in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9379) Dijon in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family affiliation of (9379) Dijon in the AstDyS-2 database (English)