(28878) Segner
Asteroid (28878) Segner |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 2.5822 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1926 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0849 AU - 3.0795 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 0.3975 ° |
Sidereal period | 4.15 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 18.53 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 14.7 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Peter Kušnirák |
Date of discovery | May 26, 2000 |
Another name | 2000 KL 41 , 1976 SX 8 |
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. |
(28878) Segner is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on May 26, 2000 by the Slovak astronomer Peter Kušnirák at the Ondřejov observatory ( IAU code 557) in the Czech Republic .
The asteroid is named after the mathematician , physicist and doctor Johann Andreas von Segner (1704–1777), who was born in Bratislava and who developed the water wheel named after him and who was responsible for building the university observatory in Göttingen and the Halle observatory .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Segner: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (28878) Segner in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (28878) Segner in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).