(230765) Alfbester
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Asteroid (230765) Alfbester |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main outer belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.0831 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1262 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6941 AU - 3.4721 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 8.1984 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 268.5823 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 195.7115 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.41 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 15.051 (± 0.39813) mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Bernard Christophe |
| Date of discovery | December 15, 2003 |
| Another name | 2003 XN 15 , 2008 UC 215 |
| 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. | |
(230765) Alfbester is an asteroid of the main outer belt discovered on December 15, 2003 by the French astronomer Bernard Christophe at the Saint-Sulpice Observatory ( IAU code 947) in Saint-Sulpice , Canton of Noailles .
The asteroid was named on March 30, 2010 after the American science fiction author Alfred Bester . In the reason for the naming, Bernard Christophe writes that Bester's The Stars My Destination is his favorite novel.
Web links
- (230765) Alfbester in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (230765) Alfbester in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- Discovery Circumstances of (230001) Alfbester according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Image by Bernard Christophe during the WETO 2012 conference (French)
- ↑ Alfred Bester's third novel, published for the first time in 1956, was also published under the title Tiger Tiger . German translations appeared under the title Die Rache des Kosmonauten (1965), Tiger! Tiger! (1983) and The Burning Man (2000).