(14832) Alechinsky
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Asteroid (14832) Alechinsky |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.2924 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1240 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0082 AU - 2.5767 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 5.7290 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 307.3874 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 78.2919 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.47 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.67 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 4.359 ± 0.176 km |
| Albedo | 0.194 ± 0.016 |
| Rotation period | 8.07 h |
| Absolute brightness | 14.2 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | August 27, 1987 |
| Another name | 1987 QC 3 , 1994 PY 32 |
| 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. | |
(14832) Alechinsky is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 27 August 1987 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 was named on October 13, 2000 after the Belgian painter Pierre Alechinsky (* 1927), whose main work combines western and eastern (mainly Japanese) elements in a graphically shaped representation.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Alechinsky: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (14832) Alechinsky in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (14832) Alechinsky in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).