(16765) Agnesi
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Asteroid (16765) Agnesi |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.6253 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1102 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.3360 AU - 2.9145 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 12.2657 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 17.7647 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 314.9275 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.25 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.38 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 4.132 ± 0.247 km |
| Albedo | 0.285 ± 0.025 |
| Absolute brightness | 14.0 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | PG Comba |
| Date of discovery | October 16, 1996 |
| Another name | 1996 UA |
| 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. | |
(16765) Agnesi is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 16 October 1996 by the American Italo- astronomer Paul G. Comba , from its private Prescott Observatory (from IAU code 684), was discovered.
The heavenly body was named on January 9, 2001 after the Italian mathematician and philanthropist Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718–1799), who lived in the Age of Enlightenment and was appointed professor at the University of Bologna in 1748 by Pope Benedict XIV , where she never taught . A Venus crater on the southern hemisphere of the Venus was named after Maria Gaetana Agnesi in 1991 : Venus crater Agnesi .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Agnesi: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (16765) Agnesi in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (16765) Agnesi in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Venus crater Agnesi in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS (English)