(14016) Steller
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Asteroid (14016) Steller |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Eos family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.0702 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0467 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.9269 AU - 3.2135 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 8.4626 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 275.8818 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 283.8161 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.38 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.99 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.3 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Eric Walter Elst Christian Pollas |
| Date of discovery | January 16, 1994 |
| Another name | 1994 BJ 4 , 1996 OC |
| 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. | |
(14016) Steller is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on January 16, 1994 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst and his French colleague Christian Pollas at the Observatoire de Calern ( observatory code 010) north of the city of Grasse in southern France.
The asteroid was on 19 February 2006 after the German physician and naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller named (1709 to 1746), the 1741 expedition as doctor at the Danish captain Vitus Bering led Great Northern Expedition participated.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Steller: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (14016) Steller in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (14016) Steller in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).