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2062 Aten
2062 Aten , provisional designation , is a stony sub-kilometer asteroid and namesake of the Aten asteroids, a subgroup of near-Earth objects. The asteroid was named after Aten from Egyptian mythology. It was discovered on 7 January 1976, at the Palomar Observatory by American astronomer Eleanor Helin, who was the principal scientist for the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking, NEAT project until her retirement in 2002. The S-type asteroid measures approximately 900 meters in diameter, has a longer-than average rotation period of 44.77 hours, and approaches the orbit Earth to 44.1 Lunar distance (astronomy), lunar distances. Orbit and classification ''Aten'' orbits the Sun at a distance of 0.8–1.1 Astronomical unit, AU once every 11 months (347 days). Its orbit has an orbital eccentricity, eccentricity of 0.18 and an orbital inclination, inclination of 19Degree (angle), ° with respect to the ecliptic. A first precovery was taken at the discovering observatory in December 1955 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aten Symbol (fixed Width)
Aten, also Aton, Atonu, or Itn (, reconstructed ) was the focus of Atenism, the religious system formally established in ancient Egypt by the late Eighteenth Dynasty pharaoh Akhenaten. Exact dating for the Eighteenth Dynasty is contested, though a general date range places the dynasty in the years 1550 to 1292 BCE. The worship of Aten and the coinciding rule of Akhenaten are major identifying characteristics of a period within the Eighteenth Dynasty referred to as the Amarna Period (1336 BCE). Atenism and the worship of the Aten as the sole god of ancient Egypt state worship did not persist beyond Akhenaten's death. Not long after his death, one of Akhenaten's Eighteenth Dynasty successors, Tutankhamun, reopened the state temples to other Egyptian gods and re-positioned Amun as the pre-eminent solar deity. Aten is depicted as a solar disc emitting rays terminating in human hands. Etymology The word ''Aten'' appears in the Old Kingdom as a noun meaning "disc" which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
