(6977) Jaucourt
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Asteroid (6977) Jaucourt |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Inner main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.2608 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1437 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.9357 AU - 2.5856 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.4174 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 129.0282 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 162.7597 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.40 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.80 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 3.980 (± 0.060) km |
| Albedo | 0.175 (± 0.008) |
| Absolute brightness | 14.0 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | July 20, 1993 |
| Another name | 1993 OZ 4 , 1979 HW 3 , 1982 DN 3 , 1983 RV 6 , 1983 RZ 7 , 1990 SG 13 |
| 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. | |
(6977) Jaucourt is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 20 July 1993 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory ( IAU code was discovered 809).
The asteroid was named after the French writer Louis de Jaucourt (1704–1779), who was instrumental in the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers edited by Denis Diderot and Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Jaucourt: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Jaucourt in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (6977) Jaucourt in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).