(13350) Gmelin
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Asteroid (13350) Gmelin |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.2079 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0648 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 3,0002 AU - 3.4157 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 9.2096 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 199.7992 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 198.5596 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.75 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.63 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | September 20, 1998 |
| Another name | 1998 ST 144 , 1981 UT 22 , 1992 SO 25 |
| 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. | |
(13350) Gmelin is a main outer belt asteroid discovered on September 20, 1998 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( IAU code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile .
The asteroid was named on September 19, 2005 after the German Siberian researcher and botanist Johann Georg Gmelin (1709–1755), who took part in the Second Kamchatka Expedition and based the knowledge gained on the Siberian flora .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Gmelin: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (13350) Gmelin in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (13350) Gmelin in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).