(9471) Ostend
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Asteroid (9471) Ostend |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Agnia family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.7903 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0858 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.5508 AU - 3.0298 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.4370 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 310.2358 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 110.1441 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.66 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.82 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | July 26, 1998 |
| Another name | 1998 OU 13 , 1979 OE 3 , 1980 VK 4 , 1989 TP 10 , 1993 OZ 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. | |
(9471) Ostend is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 26 July 1998 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 is a member of the Agnia family, a group of asteroids that were formed no more than 140 million years ago when a large body broke apart and named after their largest member (847) Agnia .
(9471) Ostend was named after the Belgian port city of Ostend in the province of West Flanders , a well-known seaside resort on the Belgian North Sea coast.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family membership of (9471) Ostend in the AstDyS-2 database (English)
Web links
- Asteroid Ostend: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Ostend in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9471) Ostend in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).