(11763) Deslandres
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Asteroid (11763) Deslandres |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main outer belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Koronis family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.8779 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1324 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.8398 AU - 2.9160 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.2713 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 182.2240 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 245.1807 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.88 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.3 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld , Tom Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | September 24, 1960 |
| Another name | 6303 PL , 1992 EO 17 |
| 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. | |
(11763) Deslandres is an asteroid of the main outer belt that was discovered on September 24, 1960 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld . The discovery came about 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 .
The asteroid is a member of the Koronis family, a group of asteroids named after (158) Koronis . The ageless (not osculating ) orbital elements of (11763) Deslandres are almost identical to those of the larger asteroids (6276) Kurohone and the smaller asteroids (23808) Joshua Hammer , (38416) 1999 RV 213 , (61422) 2000 QN 15 and (198,804) 2005 EW 180 . The size comparison is based solely on the absolute brightness , since the diameters of the celestial bodies are not known.
(11763) Deslandres was named on September 26, 2007 after the French astronomer Henri-Alexandre Deslandres (1853–1948). A lunar crater in the south of the front of the moon was named after Deslandres as early as 1948 : Deslandres lunar crater .
Web links
- (11763) Deslandres in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (11763) Deslandres in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- Discovery Circumstances of (11763) Deslandres 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 family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)
- ↑ The Deslandres lunar crater in the IAU's Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature (WGPSN) / USGS (English)