05 May 2016

175583 Pingtung - Asteroid Newly Named After PingTung County Taiwan

175583 Pingtung - Asteroid Newly Named After PingTung County Taiwan

175583 Pingtung, Pingtung asteroid the size of a rough estimate of about 3-6 km detour around the sun about 5.55 years (orbital period), about 430 million kilometers from the sun, the nearest time (perihelion), when the farthest from the sun (aphelion ) of about 510 million kilometers. October 15, 2006 was found, it was in the vicinity of the Taurus, in April 2016 in the position of Capricorn.

175583 Pingtung,屏東小行星的大小粗估約3-6公里,繞行太陽一圈約5.55年(軌道週期),離太陽最近時(近日點)約4.3億公里,離太陽最遠時(遠日點)約5.1億公里。2006年10月15日被發現,當時是在金牛座附近,2016年4月位置則在魔羯座。


JPL/NASA-
175583 Pingtung (2006 TV94)http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=175583

Wikipedia Entry-
(175583) Pingtung is an asteroid one of the main belt of asteroids. It was discovered the15 October 2006at the Lulin Observatory by Chi-Sheng Lin and Ye Zhi Quan . It has an orbit characterized by a semi-major axis of 3.13 AU, an eccentricity of 0.09 and an inclination of 11.5 ° relative to the ecliptic 2 .

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