(16856) Banach
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Asteroid (16856) Banach |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4355 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1630 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0385 AU - 2.8325 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 7.3044 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.80 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.08 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.9 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Paul G. Comba |
| Date of discovery | December 28, 1997 |
| Another name | 1997 YE 8 |
| 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. | |
(16856) Banach is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 28 December 1997 by the American Italo- astronomer Paul G. Comba at Prescott Observatory was discovered.
The celestial body was named after the Polish mathematician Stefan Banach (1892–1945), the founder of modern functional analysis and one of the main representatives of the Lviv school of mathematicians .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Banach: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (16856) Banach in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (16856) Banach in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).