(13115) Jeangodin
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Asteroid (13115) Jeangodin |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt |
| Major semi-axis | 2.6439 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0927 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.3988 AU - 2.8889 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 0.4315 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 349.5661 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 268.4503 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.30 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.8 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | 17th September 1993 |
| Another name | 1993 SU 6 , 1976 UL 10 , 1996 FU 23 , 1997 RK 13 |
| 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. | |
(13115) Jeangodin is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 17 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 April 9, 2009 after the French naturalist and cartographer Jean Godin (1712–1792), who from 1735 took part in the expedition of the French Academy of Sciences to the viceroyalty of Peru to measure the figure of the earth.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Jeangodin: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (13115) Jeangodin in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (13115) Jeangodin in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).