(13085) Borlaug
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Asteroid (13085) Borlaug |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt |
| Major semi-axis | 2.7529 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0805 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.5312 AU - 2.9746 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 0.1934 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 273.8561 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 348.7548 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.57 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.0 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | April 23, 1992 |
| Another name | 1992 HA 4 , 1993 PW 1 |
| 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. | |
(13085) Borlaug is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 23 April 1992 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( IAU code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile was discovered.
On December 2, 2009, the asteroid was named after the American agronomist Norman Borlaug (1914–2009), who was the main initiator of the so-called Green Revolution in developing countries and who saved millions of people from starvation and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Borlaug: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (13085) Borlaug in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (13085) Borlaug in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).