Phaethon
3200 Phaethon, 1983 TB
Phaethon
Asteroid
Aries
Sichtbar
Stufe 6
Professional/Research - Timing dependent
Eigenschaften
Helligkeit
10.5
Type: Asteroid
Distance: 1.271 AU
Orbital Period: 523.6 days
Diameter: 6 km
Parent body of the Geminid meteor shower; B-type asteroid with unusually blue color; perihelion at just 0.14 AU from the Sun (closer than Mercury); target of JAXA DESTINY+ mission; exhibits comet-like dust ejection near perihelion despite rocky composition.
Position & Bezeichnungen
RA
02h 30m 21.2s
Dec
+22° 56' 43.6"
Sternbild
Aries
Katalog
Phaethon
Physikalische Eigenschaften
Durchmesser
6 km
Masse
1.4e14 kg
Albedo
0.11
(11% reflected)
Rotation
3.6 hours
Winkeldurchmesser
0.0″ (current)
Bahneigenschaften
Große Halbachse
1.2714 AU
(190.2 million km)
Exzentrizität
0.8897
Bahnneigung
22.31°
Umlaufzeit
523.6 days
Entfernung
2.864 AU
(23.8 light-min)
Elongation
37.1°
Moderate
Beobachtungstipps
Beste Monate
December
Sichtbarkeit
Telescope during close approach
Wo zu finden
Near-Earth asteroid (Apollo group)
Hinweise
Parent body of the Geminid meteor shower; B-type asteroid with unusually blue color; perihelion at just 0.14 AU from the Sun (closer than Mercury); target of JAXA DESTINY+ mission; exhibits comet-like dust ejection near perihelion despite rocky composition.
Entdeckung
Entdeckt von
Simon Green, John Davies (IRAS)
Datum
1983-10-11
Aktuelle Ephemeriden
2.864
AU from Earth
428.5M
km
0.0″
Winkeldurchmesser
37°
Elongation
Sichtbarkeit
Standort in den Benutzereinstellungen festlegen um Sichtbarkeitsdaten zu sehen.