(4893) Seitter
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Asteroid (4893) Seitter |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1494 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0878 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.8730 AU - 3.4258 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 13.7663 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 151.2044 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 101.8537 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.59 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.78 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 12.1 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Eric Walter Elst Wioleta Iwanowa |
| Date of discovery | August 9, 1986 |
| Another name | 1986 PT 4 , 1951 JD, 1984 DJ 2 , 1986 RW 4 , 1990 HB |
| 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. | |
(4893) Seitter is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on August 9, 1986 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst and his Bulgarian colleague Wioleta Iwanowa at the Bulgarian National Astronomical Observatory - Roschen ( IAU code 071) near Smoljan .
The asteroid was named after the German astronomer Waltraut Seitter (1930-2007), who was the first woman in Germany to hold a chair for astronomy and who until 1995 was director of the Astronomical Institute of the University of Münster .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Seitter: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Seitter in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (4893) Seitter in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).