(15468) Mondriaan
Asteroid (15468) Mondriaan |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Asteroid family | Koronis family |
Major semi-axis | 2.9103 AU |
eccentricity | 0.0144 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.8685 AU - 2.9521 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 1.8141 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 356.2752 ° |
Sidereal period | 4.96 a |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 13.6 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Spacewatch |
Date of discovery | January 14, 1999 |
Another name | 1999 AT 31 , 1982 VV 7 , 1991 PN 12 , 1994 FA 1 |
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. |
(15468) Mondriaan is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 14 January 1999 by astronomers of SPACEWatch -project at Kitt Peak National Observatory ( IAU code in 695) Arizona was discovered.
The celestial body was named on January 16, 2014 after the Dutch painter of classical modernism Piet Mondrian (1872–1944), who created the neo-plasticism style and is considered the most important representative of Dutch constructivism and the concrete art that Theo van Doesburg calls it.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Mondriaan: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (15468) Mondriaan in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (15468) Mondriaan in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).