(15785) de Villegas
Asteroid (15785) de Villegas |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 3.1433 AU |
eccentricity | 0.0586 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.9592 AU - 3.3279 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 14.1866 ° |
Sidereal period | 5.57 a |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 13.0 likes |
history | |
Explorer | EW Elst |
Date of discovery | August 18, 1993 |
Another name | 1993 QO 3 , 1999 TA 100 |
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. |
(15785) de Villegas is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 18 August 1993 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the Observatoire de Calern was discovered in southern France.
It was named on February 9, 2009 in honor of Esteban Manuel de Villegas , a Spanish poet of the 17th century and Jean-Baptiste de Villegas , a member of the Gezelschap van den Heiligen Bloede in Bruges, Belgium .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid de Villegas: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (15785) de Villegas in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (15785) de Villegas in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).