(13213) Maclaurin
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Asteroid (13213) Maclaurin |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.2504 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0909 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0459 AU - 2.4548 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.7252 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 80.2896 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 92.6248 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.38 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | May 3, 1997 |
| Another name | 1997 JB 15 , 1998 RL 77 |
| 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. | |
(13213) Maclaurin is an asteroid of the main belt , which on May 3, 1997 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 British mathematician , geodesist and geophysicist Colin Maclaurin (1698–1746), who made important contributions to theoretical geodesy and geophysics and who in 1742 wrote his most important work A treatise of fluxions , one of the first systematic presentations of Newton's calculus.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Maclaurin: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (13213) Maclaurin in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (13213) Maclaurin in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).