(10541) Malesherbes
Asteroid (10541) Malesherbes |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Asteroid family | Levin family |
Major semi-axis | 2.2747 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1595 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 1.9119 AU - 2.6374 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 5.7953 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 134.6653 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 265.9352 ° |
Sidereal period | 3.43 a |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 14.2 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
Date of discovery | December 31, 1991 |
Another name | 1991 VX , 1984 YT 2 , 1987 QP 9 |
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. |
(10541) Malesherbes is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 31 December 1991 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at de Observatoire Haute-Provence ( IAU code in 511) South of France was discovered.
The asteroid belongs to the Levin family, a group of asteroids named after (2076) Levin .
(10541) Malesherbes was named on July 12, 2014 after the French statesman , minister , botanist and later defender of Louis XVI. Chrétien-Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes (1721–1794), who was executed in 1794 for his role in defending the king with his relatives.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ (10541) Malesherbes in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Web links
- Asteroid Malesherbes: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (10541) Malesherbes in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (10541) Malesherbes in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).