(24048) Pedroduque
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Asteroid (24048) Pedroduque |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.6809 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1337 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.1405 AU - 2.4410 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 13.7506 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.81 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.06 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.3 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Jaume noun |
| Date of discovery | October 10, 1999 |
| Another name | 1999 TL 11 , 1994 LN 7 |
| 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. | |
(24048) Pedro Duque is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 10 October 1999 by the Catalan astronomer Jaume noun the Observatory Ametlla de Mar ( IAU code 946) from L'Ametlla de Mar in the province of Tarragona in Spain was discovered.
The asteroid is named after the Spanish astronaut Pedro Francisco Duque (* 1963), who was the first Spaniard to fly into space as an ESA mission specialist on board the STS-95 . In October 2003, he completed his second space flight during a one-week stay on the ISS as part of the Soyuz TMA-3 mission .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Pedroduque: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (24048) Pedroduque in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (24048) Pedroduque in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).