480 Hansa
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| Discovery | |
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| Discovered by |
Max Wolf Luigi Carnera |
| Discovery site | Heidelberg |
| Discovery date | May 21, 1901 |
| Designations | |
| Alternative names | 1901 GL |
| Minor planet category | main belt, hansa family |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch August 18, 2005 (JDCT 2453600.5) | |
| Aphelion | 2.768 AU |
| Perihelion | 2.521 AU |
| Semi-major axis | 2.644 AU |
| Eccentricity | 0.047 |
| Orbital period | 4.300 a |
| Mean anomaly | 250.230° |
| Inclination | 21.292° |
| Longitude of ascending node | 237.399° |
| Argument of perihelion | 212.623° |
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480 Hansa is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.
This object is the namesake of the Hansa family[1] of 162–839 asteroids that share similar spectral properties and orbital elements. Hence they may have arisen from the same collisional event. All members have a relatively high orbital inclination.[2]
References
- ↑ Hergenrother, C. W.; Larson, S. M.; Spahr, T. B. (September 1996). "The Hansa Family: A New High-Inclination Asteroid Family". American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #28, #10.07; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 28: 1097. Bibcode:1996DPS....28.1007H.
- ↑ Novaković, Bojan et al. (November 2011), "Families among high-inclination asteroids", Icarus 216 (1): 69-81, arXiv:1108.3740, Bibcode:2011Icar..216...69N, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2011.08.016.
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