(227641) Nothomb
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Asteroid (227641) Nothomb |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main outer belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Koronis family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.8699 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0769 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.4806 AU - 3.0905 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.4806 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 157.6392 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 230.7879 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | March 9, 2019 |
| Sidereal period | 4.86 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.56 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 16.5 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Jean-Claude Merlin |
| Date of discovery | January 28, 2006 |
| Another name | 2006 BD 99 , 2004 TS 348 |
| 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. | |
(227641) Nothomb is an asteroid located in the outer main belt . It was discovered on January 28, 2006 by the French computer scientist and amateur astronomer Jean-Claude Merlin at the fully automatic Ritchey-Chrétien 81 cm telescope at the Tenagra II Observatory in Nogales , Arizona ( IAU code 926). The telescope was able to head for Merlin from France when it was discovered. The asteroid had been sighted several times before, for example on October 7, 2004 under the provisional designation 2004 TS 348 at the Steward Observatory's remote station on Kitt Peak as part of the Spacewatch project.
The asteroid is a member of the Koronis family, a group of asteroids named after (158) Koronis . The timeless (not osculating ) orbital elements of (227,641) Nothomb are almost identical to those of 27 other asteroids, which include (1223) Neckar and (15501) Pepawlowski belong.
(227641) Nothomb was named on January 30, 2010 after the Belgian writer Amélie Nothomb . Her novel “ With amazement and tremors ” (original: Stupeur et Tremblements ) from 1999 was particularly emphasized in the dedication .
Web links
- (227641) Nothomb in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (227641) Nothomb in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)
- Discovery Circumstances of (227641) Nothomb according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ (227641) Nothomb at the IAU Minor Planet Center (English)
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)