(13058) Alfredstevens
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Asteroid (13058) Alfredstevens |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt |
| Asteroid family | Vesta family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3584 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1157 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0856 AU - 2.6311 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 6.1047 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 197.1016 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 214.2858 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.62 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | November 19, 1990 |
| Another name | 1990 WN 3 , 1992 GB 7 , 1992 HB 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. | |
(13058) Alfred Stevens is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 19 November 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 belongs to the Vesta family , a large group of asteroids named after (4) Vesta , the second largest asteroid and third largest celestial body in the main belt.
(13058) Alfredstevens was named on January 30, 2010 after the Belgian painter Alfred Stevens (1823-1906), who found his own style in genre painting and designed a room with the four seasons on behalf of the Belgian King Leopold II .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Alfredstevens: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (13058) Alfredstevens in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (13058) Alfredstevens in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)