(26355) Grueber
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Asteroid (26355) Grueber |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.5184 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2534 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.8802 AU - 3.1567 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 12.1617 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 94.7381 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.00 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.77 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 12.6 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Erich Meyer |
| Date of discovery | December 23, 1998 |
| Another name | 1998 YL 8 , 1991 AU |
| 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. | |
(26355) Grueber is an asteroid of the main belt which was discovered on December 23, 1998 by the Austrian amateur astronomer Erich Meyer at the Davidschlag observatory ( IAU code 540) near Linz in Austria .
The asteroid was named on January 7, 2004 after the explorer, Jesuit and missionary Johann Grueber (1623–1680), who in 1661 was the first European ever to reach the Tibetan capital Lhasa .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Grueber: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (26355) Grueber in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (26355) Grueber in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- Private observatory Meyer / Obermair (English)