(9393) Apta
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Asteroid (9393) Apta |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.6065 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1003 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.3450 AU - 2.8679 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.3765 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 165.3461 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 43.3002 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.21 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.45 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.6 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | August 10, 1994 |
| Another name | 1994 PT 14 , 1972 HH, 1991 XX 5 |
| 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. | |
(9393) Apta is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 10 August 1994 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( IAU code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile was discovered.
The asteroid was named on November 20, 2002 after the French city of Apt in the Vaucluse département in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region , which was founded in Roman times as a Roman colony by Julius Caesar in 45 BC. In place of an earlier city when Apta Julia was re-founded and is known today as the "world capital of candied fruits ".
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Apta: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Apta in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9393) Apta in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).