(7906) Melanchton

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Asteroid
(7906) Melanchton
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  December 9, 2014 ( JD 2,457,000.5)
Orbit type Main belt asteroid
Asteroid family Eos family
Major semi-axis 3.0508  AU
eccentricity 0.1433
Perihelion - aphelion 2.6136 AU - 3.4881 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 9.9865 °
Length of the ascending node 228.2337 °
Argument of the periapsis 134.4504 °
Sidereal period 5.33 a
Mean orbital velocity 17.04 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness 12.8 mag
history
Explorer Cornelis Johannes van Houten ,
Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld ,
Tom Gehrels
Date of discovery September 24, 1960
Another name 3081 PL , 1955 UX 1 , 1992 TT 1
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.

(7906) Melanchton is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on September 24, 1960 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld . The discovery was made as part of the Palomar-Leiden survey , during which Tom Gehrels examined field plates recorded at the University of Leiden with the 120 cm Oschin Schmidt telescope of the Palomar observatory ( IAU code 675) .

The asteroid belongs to the Eos family , a group of asteroids which typically have large semiaxes from 2.95 to 3.1 AU , bounded inward by the Kirkwood gap of the 7: 3 resonance with Jupiter , and orbital inclinations between 8 ° and 12 °. The group is named after the asteroid (221) Eos . The family is believed to have emerged from a collision more than a billion years ago.

(7906) Melanchton was named after the German philologist , philosopher , humanist , theologian , textbook author and neo-Latin poet Philipp Melanchthon (1497–1560), who as a reformer alongside Martin Luther was a driving force behind the German and European ecclesiastical reformation .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The family affiliation of (7906) Melanchton in the AstDyS-2 database (English)
  2. ↑ David Vokrouhlický , Miroslav Brož , Alessandro Morbidelli , William Bottke , David Nesvorný , Daniel Lazzaro, Andy Rivkin: Yarkovsky footprints in the Eos family ( PDF , English)

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