(12761) Pauwels
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Asteroid (12761) Pauwels |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1024 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0575 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.9239 AU - 3.2810 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 18.5089 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.46 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.90 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | EW Elst |
| Date of discovery | October 9, 1993 |
| Another name | 1993 TP 38 , 1991 JG 2 |
| 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. | |
(12761) Pauwels is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 9 October 1993 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( IAU code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile was discovered.
The asteroid was named after the Belgian astronomer and astrometer Thierry Pauwels (* 1957), who works at the Observatoire royal de Belgique and in 1996 significantly improved the Schmidt camera there by installing a CCD camera.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Pauwels: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (12761) Pauwels in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (12761) Pauwels in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).