(5053) Chladni
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Asteroid (5053) Chladni |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3985 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1682 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.9951 AU - 2.8018 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 11.5073 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 150.2121 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 11.6512 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.71 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.22 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Rotation period | 8.2618 h |
| Absolute brightness | 13.1 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Edward LG Bowell |
| Date of discovery | March 22, 1985 |
| Another name | 1985 FB 2 , 1981 DA 4 , 1990 QW 6 |
| 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. | |
(5053) Chladni is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 22 March 1985 by the American astronomer Edward LG Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station ( IAU code 688) of the Lowell Observatory in Coconino County was discovered.
The asteroid was named after the German physicist and astronomer Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni (1756–1827) who founded modern meteorite research in 1794 with his thesis on the origin of meteorites in space .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Chladni: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Chladni in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (5053) Chladni in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).