(13113) Williamyeats
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Asteroid (13113) Williamyeats |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt |
| Major semi-axis | 2.7017 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0490 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.5694 AU - 2.8340 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 7.0617 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 183.2364 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 300.4622 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.44 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.7 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | September 15, 1993 |
| Another name | 1993 RQ 5 , 1979 OK 10 |
| 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. | |
(13113) Williamyeats is an asteroid of the main belt , on 15 September 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 March 30, 2010 after the Irish poet and writer William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), who was the first Irishman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923 and is often considered the greatest Irish writer of his time alongside James Joyce .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Williamyeats: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (13113) Williamyeats in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (13113) Williamyeats in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).