(11238) Johanmaurits
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Asteroid (11238) Johanmaurits |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.2234 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0655 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0779 AU - 2.3690 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.8786 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 349.8974 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 243.3538 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.32 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.97 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.8 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
C. J. v. Houten , I. v. Houten-Groeneveld T. Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | September 24, 1960 |
| Another name | 2044 PL , 1999 JY 57 |
| 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. | |
(11238) Johanmaurits 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 was named on March 6, 2004 after the Dutch Field Marshal Johann Moritz Fürst von Nassau-Siegen (1604–1679), who served as Governor General of the possessions of the Dutch West India Company in Brazil (Dutch Brazil) from 1636 to 1644 and reformed the colony's administration and industry.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Johanmaurits: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (11238) Johanmaurits in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (11238) Johanmaurits in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).