(7056) Kierkegaard
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Asteroid (7056) Kierkegaard |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Agnia family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.8082 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0504 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6666 AU - 2.9499 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 5.2578 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 75.9363 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.71 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.76 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 12.8 mag |
| Spectral class | SMASSII: Sq |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | September 26, 1989 |
| Another name | 1989 SE 2 , 1991 AV |
| 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. | |
(7056) Kierkegaard is an asteroid of the main belt , the September 26, 1989 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( observatory code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile was discovered.
The asteroid is named after the Danish philosopher , essayist , theologian and religious writer Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855), who is widely regarded as a pioneer of existential philosophy or even as its first representative.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Kierkegaard: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Kierkegaard in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (7056) Kierkegaard in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).