(9907) Oileus
Asteroid (9907) Oileus |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Jupiter Trojan (L 4 ) |
Major semi-axis | 5,3000 AU |
eccentricity | 0.0673 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 4.9435 AU - 5.6565 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 8.1419 ° |
Sidereal period | 12.20 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 12.92 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 11.6 mag |
history | |
Explorer |
Cornelis van Houten Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld |
Date of discovery | September 24, 1960 |
Another name | 6541 PL, 1977 CC 1 |
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. |
(9907) Oileus 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 .
(9907) Oileus 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 Oileus , King of Lokris and father of Ajax the Little . In his youth he took part in the Argonaut train.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Oileus: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Oileus in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9907) Oileus in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).