(6629) Kurtz
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Asteroid (6629) Kurtz |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.1782 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1388 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.8758 AU - 2.4805 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.1285 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 212.0752 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 162.4307 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.21 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 20.18 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 2.854 ± 0.174 km |
| Albedo | 0.324 ± 0.130 |
| Absolute brightness | 14.6 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | E. Bowell |
| Date of discovery | 17th October 1982 |
| Another name | 1982 UP , 1969 RS 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. | |
(6629) Kurtz is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 17 October 1982 by the American astronomer Edward LG Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station ( IAU code 688) of the Lowell Observatory in Coconino County in Arizona was discovered.
The asteroid was on 28 August 1996 after the emeritus professor of philosophy Paul Kurtz named (1925-2012), the founder and chairman of the think tanks Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) was and the term Eupraxsophie for philosophies and ideologies such as secular humanism or the Confucianism coined containing no reference to transcendental or supernatural.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Kurtz: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Kurtz in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (6629) Kurtz in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).