(14100) Weierstrasse

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Asteroid
(14100) Weierstrass
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  January 13, 2016 ( JD 2,457,400.5)
Orbit type Main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis 3.1263  AU
eccentricity 0.0960
Perihelion - aphelion 2.8261 AU - 3.4265 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 0.5791 °
Length of the ascending node 190.3185 °
Argument of the periapsis 35.7945 °
Sidereal period 5.53 a
Mean orbital velocity 16.83 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness 13.5 likes
history
Explorer Paul G. Comba
Date of discovery September 8, 1997
Another name 1997 RQ 5
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.

(14100) Weierstrass is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 8 September 1997 by the Italian-American astronomer Paul G. Comba on Observatory Prescott ( IAU code 684) in Arizona was discovered.

The asteroid was named on May 23, 2000 after the German mathematician Karl Weierstraß (1815-1897), whose main work was the logically correct foundation of analysis and the development of function theory on the basis of power series expansions .

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