(5148) Giordano
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Asteroid (5148) Giordano |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1173 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1450 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6652 AU - 3.5694 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 1.1264 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 346.7739 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 227.1881 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.50 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.84 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Rotation period | 7.8237 h |
| Absolute brightness | 13.9 likes |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld , Tom Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | October 17, 1960 |
| Another name | 5557 PL , 1974 CS, 1980 GC 1 |
| 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. | |
(5148) Giordano is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on October 17, 1960 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld . The discovery came about as part of the Palomar-Leiden survey , during which Tom Gehrels examined field plates recorded at the University of Leiden with the 120 cm Oschin Schmidt telescope of the Palomar observatory .
The asteroid was named after the Italian priest , poet , philosopher and astronomer Giordano Bruno (1548–1600).
See also
Web links
- (5148) Giordano in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (5148) Giordano in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)
- Discovery Circumstances by (5148) Giordano according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)