(55733) Lepsius
Asteroid 55733 Lepsius |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Asteroid family | Eos family |
Major semi-axis | 2.9783 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1140 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6388 AU - 3.3178 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 12.3328 ° |
Sidereal period | 5.14 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 17.25 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 13.9 likes |
history | |
Explorer | F. Börngen |
Date of discovery | November 27, 1986 |
Another name | 1986 WS 2 , 2001 OK 16 , |
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. |
(55733) Lepsius is an asteroid of the main belt , which was discovered on November 27, 1986 by the German astronomer Freimut Börngen at the Thuringian State Observatory Tautenburg .
It was named in honor of the German Egyptologist , linguist and librarian Karl Richard Lepsius , the planner of the Egyptian Museum in Berlin and founder of the field of Egyptology in German-speaking countries.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Lepsius: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Lepsius in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (55733) Lepsius in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).