(9380) Mâcon
Asteroid (9380) Mâcon |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Asteroid family | Koronis family |
Major semi-axis | 2.8692 AU |
eccentricity | 0.0314 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.7789 AU - 2.9594 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.1065 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 170.8298 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 298.0013 ° |
Sidereal period | 4.86 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 17.58 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 13.5 likes |
history | |
Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
Date of discovery | 17th August 1993 |
Another name | 1993 QZ 5 , 1991 EK 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. |
(9380) Mâcon is an asteroid of the main belt , which was discovered on August 17, 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.
(9380) Macon was on April 2, 1999 after Macon named, one on the right bank of the Saône nearby town in Burgundy , in the 3rd century. Chr. By the Celtic tribe of the Aedui ( Aedui ) under the name Matisco was founded in 1790 and capital of the newly created department Saône-et-Loire was.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Mâcon: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Mâcon in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9380) Mâcon in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family affiliation of (9380) Mâcon in the AstDyS-2 database (English)