(23473) Voss
Asteroid (23473) Voss |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 2.6809 AU |
eccentricity | 0.2018 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.1400 AU - 3.2218 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.9141 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 252.0484 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 172.9524 ° |
Sidereal period | 4.39 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 18.17 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 14.6 mag |
history | |
Explorer |
Freimut Börngen Lutz D. Schmadel |
Date of discovery | October 11, 1990 |
Another name | 1990 TD 12 , 1995 YF 10 |
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. |
(23473) Voss is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on October 11, 1990 by the German astronomers Freimut Börngen and Lutz D. Schmadel at the Thuringian State Observatory Tautenburg ( IAU code 033) in Thuringia .
The asteroid was named on July 5, 2001 after the German philologist and poet Johann Heinrich Voss (1751-1826), who translated Homer's epics Iliad and Odyssey as well as the works of Virgil , Ovid , Horace , Tibullus , Properz and other classical poets. From 1818 to 1829 he published a translation of William Shakespeare's dramas in nine volumes , which he had made with the help of his sons Heinrich and Abraham .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Voss: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (23473) Voss in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (23473) Voss in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).