(29246) Clausius
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Asteroid (29246) Clausius |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.7406 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1692 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.2769 AU - 3.2044 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 8.6779 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.54 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.98 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.5 likes |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Freimut Börngen Lutz D. Schmadel |
| Date of discovery | 2nd September 1992 |
| Another name | 1992 RV, 1999 FQ 49 |
| 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. | |
(29246) Clausius is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on September 2, 1992 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 after the German physicist Rudolf Clausius (1822–1888), who is considered to be the discoverer of the second law of thermodynamics .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Clausius: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (29246) Clausius in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (29246) Clausius in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).