(9713) Oceax
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Asteroid (9713) Oceax |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Jupiter Trojan (L 4 ) |
| Major semi-axis | 5.1842 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0558 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 4.8949 AU - 5.4735 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.1551 ° |
| Sidereal period | 11.80 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 13.06 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Rotation period | ? H |
| Absolute brightness | 11.1 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | C. J. and I. v. Houten-Groeneveld , T. Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | 19th September 1973 |
| Another name | 1973 SP 1 , 1986 VM 8 , 1996 RC 27 |
| 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. | |
(9713) Oceax is an asteroid belonging to the group of Jupiter Trojans . This describes asteroids that move around the sun on the Lagrange points on Jupiter's orbit . (9713) Oceax was founded on September 19, 1973 by C. J. and I. v. Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels discovered at the Palomar Observatory . It is assigned to the Lagrangian point L 4 .
The asteroid is named after the mythological figure of Oceax , the son of King Nauplios of Evia and brother of Palamedes .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Oceax: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Oceax in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9713) Oceax in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ NASA: 9713 Oceax. In: JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved March 22, 2010 .