(13254) Kekulé
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Asteroid (13254) Kekulé |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.2983 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1285 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0028 AU - 2.5937 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 6.7347 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 319.5406 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 272.9842 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.48 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 2.807 ± 0.466 km |
| Albedo | 0.295 ± 0.102 |
| Absolute brightness | 14.8 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | July 26, 1998 |
| Another name | 1998 OY 13 , 1976 ES, 1997 EF 40 |
| 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. | |
(13254) Kekulé is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 26 July 1998 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 July 26, 2010 after the German chemist August Kekulé (1829–1896), who laid the foundations for the modern structural theory of organic chemistry .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Kekulé: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (13254) Kekulé in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (13254) Kekulé in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).