(8240) Matisse
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Asteroid (8240) Matisse |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Inner main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4651 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1439 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.1104 AU - 2.8199 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.1443 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 106.9699 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 73.6421 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.87 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.97 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.2 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld , Tom Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | 29th September 1973 |
| Another name | 4172 T-2 , 1993 VE 8 |
| 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. | |
(8240) Matisse is an asteroid of the main inner belt that was discovered on September 29, 1973 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld . The discovery was made during the 2nd Trojan survey, during which Tom Gehrels surveyed field plates recorded with the 120 cm Oschin Schmidt telescope of the Palomar observatory at the University of Leiden , 13 years after the start of the Palomar-Leiden- Surveys .
Mean distance from the sun ( major semi-axis ), eccentricity and inclination of the orbit plane of the asteroid lie within the respective limit values that are defined for the Nysa group, a group of asteroids named after (44) Nysa (also called Hertha family, according to (135) Hertha ).
(8240) Matisse was named on April 2, 1999 after the French painter Henri Matisse , who is one of the most important artists of Classical Modernism and one of the main representatives of Fauvism . As early as 1976, an impact crater on the southern hemisphere of the planet Mercury was named after Henri Matisse: Mercury crater Matisse .
Web links
- (8240) Matisse in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (8240) Matisse 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 (8240) Matisse according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Mercury Crater Matisse in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS