(37584) Schleiden

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Asteroid
(37584) Schleiden
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  May 23, 2014 ( JD 2,456,800.5)
Orbit type Main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis 2.2111  AU
eccentricity 0.1388
Perihelion - aphelion 1.9043 AU - 2.5179 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 4.2825 °
Length of the ascending node 231.0913 °
Argument of the periapsis 125.4564 °
Sidereal period 3.29 a
Mean orbital velocity 20.03 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness 14.7 mag
history
Explorer Freimut Börngen
Lutz D. Schmadel
Date of discovery October 10, 1990
Another name 1990 TC 9 , 1980 PH 1 , 1999 JX 23
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(37584) Schleiden is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on October 10, 1990 by the German astronomers Freimut Börngen and Lutz D. Schmadel at the Thuringian State Observatory Tautenburg ( IAU code 033) in the Tautenburg Forest in Thuringia .

It was named on May 26, 2002 after the German botanist Matthias Jacob Schleiden (1804–1881), who used the microscope in research and teaching as a professor in Jena and was the first botanist to discover that the various parts of plants consist of cells . Together with Theodor Schwann , Schleiden laid the foundations on which Rudolf Virchow built his cellular pathology .

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