(59388) Monod
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Asteroid (59388) Monod |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Inner main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3972 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1197 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.1102 AU - 2.6842 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.1352 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 47.1675 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 205.0420 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.71 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.24 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 15.3 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Matteo Santangelo |
| Date of discovery | March 24, 1999 |
| Another name | 1999 FU 19 , 2000 QK 144 |
| 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. | |
(59388) Monod is an asteroid of the main inner belt discovered on March 24, 1999 by the Italian astronomer Matteo Santangelo at the Osservatorio Astronomico di Monte Agliale ( IAU code 159) in Borgo a Mozzano .
The asteroid was named on April 13, 2006 after the French biochemist Jacques Monod , who together with François Jacob and André Lwoff received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965 , "for their discoveries in the field of the genetic control of the synthesis of enzymes and viruses " .
Web links
- (59388) Monod in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (59388) Monod in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)
- Discovery Circumstances of (59388) Monod according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)