(14072) Volterra
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Asteroid (14072) Volterra |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Themis family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1552 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1602 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6497 AU - 3.6608 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 1.8761 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 38.2249 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 7.7267 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.60 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.77 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Paul G. Comba |
| Date of discovery | May 21, 1996 |
| Another name | 1996 KN 11 , 1986 PS 2 , 1998 WF 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. | |
(14072) Volterra is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 21 May 1996 by the Italian-American astronomer Paul G. Comba at Prescott Observatory ( IAU code 684) in Arizona was discovered.
The asteroid belongs to the Themis family, a group of asteroids named after (24) Themis .
(14072) Volterra was named on May 23, 2000 after the Italian mathematician and physicist Vito Volterra (1860-1940), who mainly dealt with analysis and defined the Volterra equation named after him and the Volterra rules of population dynamics .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Volterra: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (14072) Volterra in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (14072) Volterra in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ (14072) Volterra in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).