(96205) Ararat

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Asteroid
(96205) Ararat
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  February 16, 2017 ( JD 2,457,800.5)
Orbit type Inner main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis 2.4141  AU
eccentricity 0.1896
Perihelion - aphelion 1.9564 AU - 2.8717 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 2.5335 °
Length of the ascending node 337.4519 °
Argument of the periapsis 32.6388 °
Time of passage of the perihelion April 10, 2015
Sidereal period 3.75 a
Mean orbital velocity 19.17 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness 16.4 mag
history
Explorer Freimut Börngen , Lutz D. Schmadel
Date of discovery September 24, 1992
Another name 1992 ST 16 , 1977 RO 19 , 2003 PH 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.

(96205) Ararat is an asteroid of the inner main belt , which was discovered by the German astronomers Freimut Börngen and Lutz D. Schmadel on September 24, 1992 at the Tautenburg Observatory ( IAU code 033) in the Thuringian Tautenburg Forest . The asteroid had already been sighted on September 9 and 10, 1977 under the provisional designation 1977 RO 19 at the Palomar Observatory in California .

Mean distance from the sun ( major semi-axis ), eccentricity and inclination of the orbit plane of the asteroid lie within the respective limit values ​​that are defined for the Nysa group, a group of asteroids named after (44) Nysa (also called Hertha family, according to (135) Hertha ).

The track from (96205) Ararat was secured in 2005, so that a numbering could be assigned. The asteroid was named after Mount Ararat on July 21 of the same year at the suggestion of Freimut Börngen .

The Turkish-German-Lebanese music project “Dead Country feat. Alfred 23 Harth “named the piece 96205 Ararat on their CD Gestalt Et Death from 2013 after the asteroid.

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Observations from (96205) Ararat on minorplanetcenter.net (English)
  2. ↑ Minor planets discovered on Tautenburg plates . On the Freimut Börngen website