(13027) Geeraerts
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Asteroid (13027) Geeraerts |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt |
| Asteroid family | Astraea family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.5558 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1112 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.2716 AU - 2.8400 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.7599 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 237.0634 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 287.1338 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.09 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.63 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.6 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | April 3, 1989 |
| Another name | 1989 FY 4 , 1997 HK 6 |
| 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. | |
(13027) Geeraerts is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 3 April 1989 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 on March 6, 2004 after the Belgian author Jef Geeraerts (* 1930), who is widely recognized for his socially critical crime novels .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Geeraerts: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (13027) Geeraerts in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (13027) Geeraerts in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).