(13097) Lamoraal
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Asteroid (13097) Lamoraal |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3381 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0154 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.3020 AU - 2.3742 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.5856 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 214.0036 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 184.4909 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.58 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.8 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | January 23, 1993 |
| Another name | 1993 BU 7 , 1997 EJ 49 |
| 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. | |
(13097) Lamoraal is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 23 January 1993 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 December 2, 2009 after the Dutch knight and governor of Flanders and Artois Lamoral von Egmond (1522–1568), who was sentenced on June 5, 1568 by the exceptional court of Albas , the so-called Blood Council , together with the Count of Hoorn and was executed. His fate is the subject of the classic tragedy Egmont by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Lamoraal: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (13097) Lamoraal in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (13097) Lamoraal in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).