(9473) Ghent
Asteroid (9473) Ghent |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 2.7632 AU |
eccentricity | 0.0298 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6809 AU - 2.8454 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.1845 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 139.7186 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 294.2791 ° |
Sidereal period | 4.59 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 17.91 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 14.4 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
Date of discovery | July 26, 1998 |
Another name | 1998 OO 14 , 1993 NR, 1997 LU 12 |
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. |
(9473) Ghent 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 was named after the Belgian city of Ghent , the capital of the province of East Flanders and the arrondissement and electoral district of the same name , which became one of the first industrialized cities on mainland Europe towards the end of the 18th century .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Ghent: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Ghent in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9473) Ghent in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).