(9487) Kupe
Asteroid (9487) Kupe |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Asteroid family | Koronis family |
Major semi-axis | 2.8406 AU |
eccentricity | 0.0565 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6802 AU - 3.0011 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.3092 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 108.7999 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 206.1343 ° |
Sidereal period | 4.79 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 17.67 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 13.6 mag |
history | |
Explorer |
C. J. v. Houten , I. v. Houten-Groeneveld T. Gehrels |
Date of discovery | October 17, 1960 |
Another name | 7633 PL , 1977 DR 3 |
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. |
(9487) Kupe is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on October 17, 1960 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld . The discovery was made as part of the Palomar-Leiden survey , during which Tom Gehrels examined field plates recorded at the University of Leiden with the 120 cm Oschin Schmidt telescope of the Palomar observatory ( IAU code 675) .
The asteroid is a member of the Koronis family, a group of asteroids named after (158) Koronis .
(9487) Kupe is named after Kupe , the discoverer of New Zealand ( Maori language : Aotearoa ) in Māori mythology .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family membership of (9487) Kupe in the AstDyS-2 database (English)
Web links
- Asteroid Kupe: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Kupe in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9487) Kupe in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).