(15811) Nüsslein-Volhard
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Asteroid (15811) Nüsslein-Volhard |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main outer belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.2046 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1657 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6738 AU - 3.7355 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 9.6131 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 225.5342 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 74.8763 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.74 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.17 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 15.520 ± 0.133 km |
| Albedo | 0.067 ± 0.007 |
| Absolute brightness | 12.7 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | F. Börngen |
| Date of discovery | July 10, 1994 |
| Another name | 1994 ND 1 , 1955 SX 1 , 1988 PY 2 , 1989 SG 7 |
| 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. | |
(15811) Nüsslein-Volhard is an asteroid of the outer main belt that was discovered on July 10, 1994 by the German astronomer Freimut Börngen at the Thuringian State Observatory in Tautenburg ( IAU code 033).
It was named on May 26, 2002 in honor of the German biologist and biochemist Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (* 1942), who held a director's position at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology from 1985 to 2014 . In 1995 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her research on the genetic control of early embryonic development.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Nüsslein-Volhard: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (15811) Nüsslein-Volhard in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (15811) Nüsslein-Volhard in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).