(9562) Memling
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Asteroid (9562) Memling |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Themis family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.0950 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1791 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.5407 AU - 3.6494 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.5276 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.45 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.94 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | approx. 18 km |
| Absolute brightness | 12.5 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | September 19, 1987 |
| Another name | 1987 RG, 1981 NR 1 , 1982 XB 2 , 1982 XK 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. | |
(9562) Memling is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 19 September 1987 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 belongs to the Themis family, a group of asteroids named after (24) Themis . The timeless (non- osculating ) orbital elements of (9562) Memling are almost identical to those of three other asteroids: (114761) 2003 HN 47 , (250812) 2005 UA 54 , (255019) Fleurmaxwell and 2015 BQ 437 .
(9562) Memling was named after the German painter of the Dutch school Hans Memling (~ 1433–1494).
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Memling: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Memling in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9562) Memling in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)