(13037) Potosi
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Asteroid (13037) Potosi |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt |
| Major semi-axis | 2.2587 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0873 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0616 AU - 2.4558 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 5.1585 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 209.9846 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 39.3488 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.39 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.6 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | March 2, 1990 |
| Another name | 1990 EN 3 , 1998 SG 118 |
| 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. | |
(13037) Potosi is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 2 March 1990 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 October 4, 2009 after the city of Potosí , located on the Bolivian Altiplano , which, thanks to the silver wealth of neighboring Cerro Rico, became one of the largest cities in the world in the early 17th century and whose silver and tin deposits make the city still today is dependent.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Potosi: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (13037) Potosi in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (13037) Potosi in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).