(9818) Eurymachos
Asteroid (9818) Eurymachos |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Jupiter Trojan (L 4 ) |
Major semi-axis | 5.2370 AU |
eccentricity | 0.0070 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 5.2004 AU - 5.2736 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 7.4810 ° |
Sidereal period | 11.98 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 12.99 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 11.0 mag |
history | |
Explorer | CJ van Houten , I. van Houten-Groeneveld |
Date of discovery | September 24, 1960 |
Another name | 6591 PL, 1979 GB |
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. |
(9818) Eurymachos 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 .
(9818) Eurymachos was discovered on September 24, 1960 by the Dutch astronomers Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at the Palomar Observatory ( IAU code 675). It is assigned to the Lagrangian point L 4 .
The asteroid is named after the mythological Greek hero Eurymachos .
He fought on the side of the Greeks in the Trojan War and was one of the warriors in the Trojan Horse .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Eurymachos: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Eurymachos in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9818) Eurymachos in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).