(11056) Volland
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Asteroid (11056) Volland |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt |
| Asteroid family | Vesta family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4522 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1615 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0560 AU - 2.8483 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 7.3530 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 90.2988 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 269.4160 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.84 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.01 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.9 likes |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | June 6, 1991 |
| Another name | 1991 LE 2 , 1992 WM 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. | |
(11056) Volland is an asteroid of the Main Belt . It was discovered on June 6, 1991 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( IAU code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile .
The asteroid belongs to the Vesta family , a large group of asteroids named after (4) Vesta , the second largest asteroid and third largest celestial body in the main belt. The timeless (non- osculating ) orbital elements of (11056) Volland are almost identical to those of three smaller ones, assuming the absolute magnitude of 15.2, 16.4 and 16.7 compared to 13.9, asteroids: (119404) 2001 TK 63 , (136981) 1998 SF 3 and (317582) 2002 WL 15 .
(11056) Volland was named on May 23, 2000 after the French enlightened intellectual Sophie Volland (1720–1784), who was a close confidante and pen friend of the French philosopher Denis Diderot .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Volland: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (11056) Volland in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (11056) Volland in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)