(12040) Jacobi
Asteroid (12040) Jacobi |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt |
Major semi-axis | 2.4207 AU |
eccentricity | 0.2038 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 1.9273 AU - 2.9142 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.7073 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 354.1189 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 93.0505 ° |
Sidereal period | 3.77 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 19.14 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 15.3 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Paul G. Comba |
Date of discovery | March 8, 1997 |
Another name | 1997 EK 8 , 1993 BF 15 , 1995 SA 29 |
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. |
(12040) Jacobi is an asteroid of the main belt , which from the March 8, 1997 Italian-American astronomer Paul G. Comba at the observatory Prescott ( IAU code 684) in Arizona was discovered.
The asteroid was named on January 24, 2000 after the German mathematician Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804-1851), who founded the mathematical-physical seminar at the University of Königsberg and in 1829 formulated the theory of elliptical functions .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Jacobi: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (12040) Jacobi in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (12040) Jacobi in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).