(17945) Hawass
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Asteroid (17945) Hawass |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.5723 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1007 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.3132 AU - 2.8313 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.2409 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.13 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.57 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.1 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | J. Broughton |
| Date of discovery | May 14, 1999 |
| Another name | 1999 JU 8 , 1991 NZ |
| 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. | |
(17945) Hawass is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 14 May 1999 by Australian amateur astronomer John Broughton at his private observatory , the Reedy Creek Observatory ( IAU code 428) in Queensland was discovered Australia.
The asteroid was named after the Egyptian Egyptologist Zahi Hawass (* 1947), who, as General Secretary of the Egyptian Antiquities Administration ( Supreme Council of Antiquities , SCA), ensured that Egyptology received greater attention from the international media and the world.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Hawass: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (17945) Hawass in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (17945) Hawass in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).