(19730) Machiavelli
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Asteroid (19730) Machiavelli |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1285 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.4212 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.8109 AU - 4.4461 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 22.9367 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.53 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.79 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.9 likes |
| history | |
| Explorer | CW Juels |
| Date of discovery | December 7, 1999 |
| Another name | 1999 XO 36 |
| 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. | |
(19730) Machiavelli is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 7 December 1999 by the American US amateur astronomer Charles W. Juel at the Observatory of Fountain Hills ( IAU code 678) in the State of Arizona was discovered.
The asteroid was named after the Florentine politician , diplomat , philosopher , historian and poet Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527), who is one of the most important state philosophers of modern times because of his work Il Principe (" The Prince ") .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Machiavelli: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (19730) Machiavelli in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (19730) Machiavelli in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).