(215868) Rohrer
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Asteroid (215868) Rohrer |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Inner main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3435 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0421 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.2450 AU - 2.4420 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 0.4783 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 231.7925 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 208.8377 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.59 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 17.3 likes |
| history | |
| Explorer | Stefano Sposetti |
| Date of discovery | March 12, 2005 |
| Another name | 2005 EA 153 , 1996 VX 23 |
| 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. | |
(215868) Rohrer is an asteroid of the inner main belt that was discovered on March 12, 2005 by the Swiss amateur astronomer Stefano Sposetti at the Osservatorio Astronomico di Gnosca ( observatory code 143) in Gnosca in the canton of Ticino . Unconfirmed sightings of the asteroid had it already on 9 November 1996 with the provisional designation 1996 VX previously 23 at the observatory Davidschlag in Austrian Linz given.
The orbit inclination of (215868) Rohrer is low at 0.4783 percent, the plane of its orbit around the sun is more like the earth's orbit than that of the other seven planets.
The asteroid was named on September 19, 2013 after the Swiss physicist Heinrich Rohrer , who died in May 2013 . In 1986 Heinrich Rohrer received the Nobel Prize in Physics for the development of the scanning tunneling microscope, alongside Ernst Ruska and together with Gerd Binnig (after whom the asteroid of the outer main belt (216390) Binnig is named) .
Web links
- (215868) Rohrer in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (215868) Rohrer in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- Discovery Circumstances by (215868) Rohrer according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ (215868) Rohrer at the IAU Minor Planet Center (English)