(11753) Geoffburbidge
Asteroid (11753) Geoffburbidge |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Asteroid family | Hygiea family |
Major semi-axis | 3.1866 AU |
eccentricity | 0.0884 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.9050 AU - 3.4682 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.5481 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 298.5795 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 193.5974 ° |
Sidereal period | 5.69 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 16.69 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 13.6 mag |
history | |
Explorer |
C. J. v. Houten , I. v. Houten-Groeneveld T. Gehrels |
Date of discovery | September 24, 1960 |
Another name | 2064 PL , 1989 WV 4 |
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. |
(11753) Geoffburbidge is an asteroid of the main belt , which 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 Hygiea family, a rather older group of asteroids, as is believed, the largest member of which is the asteroid (10) Hygiea .
(11753) Geoffburbidge was named on March 6, 2004 after the British-American astrophysicist Geoffrey Burbidge (1925-2010), who in 1957 together with his wife Margaret Burbidge , William Alfred Fowler and Fred Hoyle the B2FH theory for the origin of the light elements Nuclear fusion in stars ( nucleosynthesis ).
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ (11753) Geoffburbidge in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Web links
- Asteroid Geoffburbidge: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (11753) Geoffburbidge in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (11753) Geoffburbidge in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).