(17770) Baumé
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Asteroid (17770) Baumé |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.5542 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2722 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.8588 AU - 3.2495 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 8.2681 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.08 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Rotation period | 3.26 h |
| Absolute brightness | 13.3 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | March 1, 1998 |
| Another name | 1998 EU 11 , 1971 OF, 1999 JM 80 |
| 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. | |
(17770) Baume is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 1 March 1998 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory ( IAU code was discovered 809).
The asteroid was named after the French chemist Antoine Baumé (1728–1804), whose invention of a scale aerometer with the Baumé scale named after him made it possible to determine the densities of sulfuric acid or galvanic baths.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Baumé: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (17770) Baumé in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (17770) Baumé in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).