(16908) Groeselenberg
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Asteroid (16908) Groeselenberg |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Inner main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3822 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2449 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.7988 AU - 2.9657 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 6.5841 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 167.7379 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 272.1767 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | 19th October 2019 |
| Sidereal period | 3.68 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.29 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.2 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst , Thierry Pauwels |
| Date of discovery | February 17, 1998 |
| Another name | 1998 DD 33 , 1982 VU 12 , 1993 VX 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. | |
(16908) Groeselenberg is an asteroid of the main inner belt , which was discovered by the Belgian astronomers Eric Walter Elst and Thierry Pauwels on February 17, 1998 at the Schmidt telescope of the Royal Observatory of Belgium ( IAU code 012) in Uccle . The asteroid had already been sighted: on November 14, 1982 under the provisional designation 1982 VU 12 at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj and on November 13 and 15, 1993 (1993 VX 7 ) at the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional de Llano del Hato in Venezuela .
The asteroid's orbit around the Sun has a high eccentricity of 0.2436 .
(16908) Groeselenberg was named on November 20, 2002 after the hill and district on which the Royal Observatory of Belgium is located. The name can be translated as " gooseberry tree mountain". In the dedication it was mentioned that the famous Belgian astronomer Henri Debehogne (1928–2007) lived in a street of the same name.
See also
Web links
- (16908) Groeselenberg in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (16908) Groeselenberg in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- Discovery Circumstances by (16908) Groeselenberg according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Jan Vandenbruaene: Astronomical gids voor België . ASP, Brussels 2009, ISBN 978-90-5487-544-4 . Page 249 (Flemish)
- ↑ (16908) Groeselenberg at the IAU Minor Planet Center (English)