(19226) Peiresc
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Asteroid (19226) Peiresc |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.3474 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0427 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 3.2045 AU - 3.4903 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 8.0445 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 191.0305 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 154.4965 ° |
| Sidereal period | 6.12 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.27 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 12.7 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | EW Elst |
| Date of discovery | September 15, 1993 |
| Another name | 1993 RA 8 , 1997 GP 41 |
| 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. | |
(19226) Peiresc is an asteroid of the main belt , on 15 September 1993 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory ( IAU code in 809) Chile was discovered.
The asteroid was named on January 25, 2005 after the French humanist , scholar and art collector Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580–1637), who discovered the Orion Nebula in 1610 .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Peiresc: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (19226) Peiresc in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (19226) Peiresc in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).