(25237) Hurwitz
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Asteroid (25237) Hurwitz |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.9628 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0142 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.9207 AU - 3.0048 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 1.6307 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.10 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.29 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Paul G. Comba |
| Date of discovery | October 20, 1998 |
| Another name | 1998 UG 7 , 2000 AR 60 |
| 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. | |
(25237) Hurwitz is a main belt - Asteroid that on 20 October 1998 by the American Italo- astronomer Paul G. Comba at Prescott Observatory ( IAU code in 684) Arizona was discovered.
The asteroid was named after the German mathematician Adolf Hurwitz (1859-1919), whose name was given to several mathematical theorems of number theory and function theory .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Hurwitz: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (25237) Hurwitz in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (25237) Hurwitz in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).