(13052) Las Casas
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Asteroid (13052) Las Casas |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt |
| Major semi-axis | 2.6488 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0368 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.5513 AU - 2.7464 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.1310 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 59.8523 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 144.8209 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.31 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.29 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.8 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | September 22, 1990 |
| Another name | 1990 SN 8 |
| 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. | |
(13052) Las Casas is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 22 September 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 May 23, 2005 after the Spanish Dominican Bartolomé de Las Casas (1484–1566), who was a bishop in the Spanish colonies in America and is referred to as an apostle of the Indians because of his commitment to the rights of the Indians .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Las Casas: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (13052) Las Casas in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (13052) Las Casas in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).