(7132) Casulli
Asteroid (7132) Casulli |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt |
Major semi-axis | 2.3091 AU |
eccentricity | 0.2098 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 1.8246 AU - 2.7936 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 5.4898 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 321.1592 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 245.5569 ° |
Sidereal period | 3.51 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 19.6 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Medium diameter | 9.015 ± 0.064 km |
Albedo | 0.089 ± 0.003 |
Rotation period | 3.524 h |
Absolute brightness | 13.6 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Antonio Vagnozzi |
Date of discovery | 17th September 1993 |
Another name | 1993 SE , 1936 HN, 1954 OX |
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. |
(7132) Casulli is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 17 September 1993 by the Italian Amateur Astronomers Antonio Vagnozzi at Santa Lucia Stroncone Observatory ( IAU code 589) in Stroncone in the region Umbria was discovered.
The asteroid was named after the Italian amateur astronomer Vincenzo Silvano Casulli (1944-2018), who was the first amateur astronomer to use a CCD camera to obtain precise astrometric data from asteroids.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Casulli: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Casulli in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (7132) Casulli in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).