(13560) La Peruse
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Asteroid (13560) La Pérouse |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Eos family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.0439 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0892 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.7726 AU - 3.3153 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 9.4919 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 8.0644 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.31 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.06 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 12.7 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | 2nd September 1992 |
| Another name | 1992 RX 6 , 1995 DM 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. | |
(13560) La Perouse is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 2 September 1992 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( observatory code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile was discovered.
The asteroid is named after the French navigator , circumnavigator and geographer Jean-François de La Pérouse (1741–1788), who explored large parts of the Pacific and its East Asian tributaries from 1785 to 1788 .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid La Pérouse: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (13560) La Pérouse in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (13560) La Pérouse in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).