(95782) Hansgraf
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Asteroid (95782) Hansgraf |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Middle main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Juno family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.6600 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2368 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0302 AU - 3.2899 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 13.0110 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 155.8632 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 101.7189 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | December 18, 2016 |
| Sidereal period | 4.34 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 16.0 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Joe Dellinger |
| Date of discovery | March 24, 2003 |
| Another name | 2003 FS 3 , 1999 JU 128 |
| 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. | |
(95782) Hansgraf is an asteroid of the main central belt . It was discovered on March 24, 2003 by the American amateur astronomer Joe Dellinger at the George Observatory ( IAU code 735). The George Observatory is part of the Houston Museum of Natural Science and is located in Brazos Bend State Park in the Houston suburb of Needville . The asteroid had already been sighted on May 12 and 27, 1999 under the provisional designation 1999 JU 128 at the Lincoln Laboratory Experimental Test System in Socorro , New Mexico as part of the Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) project.
The asteroid belongs to the Juno family, a group of asteroids named after (3) Juno . The timeless (non- osculating ) orbital elements of (95782) Hansgraf are almost identical to those of 29 other asteroids, of which (48540) 1993 TW 8 is the largest, assuming absolute brightness alone .
(95782) Hansgraf was named on December 28, 2012 after the Austrian conductor Hans Graf , who was chief conductor of the Houston Symphony Orchestra from 2001 to 2013 .
See also
Web links
- (95782) Hansgraf in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (95782) Hansgraf in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)
- Discovery Circumstances by (95782) Hansgraf according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Observations by (95782) Hansgraf on minorplanetcenter.net (English)
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)