(7507) Israel
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Asteroid (7507) Israel |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3349 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2115 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.8409 AU - 2.8288 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.2968 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 243.2634 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 69.0943 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.57 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.49 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.5 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld , Tom Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | October 17, 1960 |
| Another name | 7063 PL , 1974 OC 1 , 1985 SK 2 |
| 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. | |
(7507) Israel is an asteroid of the main belt , which was discovered on October 17, 1960 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld .
description
The discovery was made as part of the Palomar-Leiden survey , during which Tom Gehrels examined field plates recorded at the University of Leiden with the 120 cm Oschin Schmidt telescope of the Palomar observatory ( IAU code 675) .
It was named on December 14, 1997 after the Dutch astronomer Frank Pieter Israel (* 1946), who works as a professor at the Leiden Observatory at the University of Leiden, on the occasion of his 51st birthday.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Israel: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Israel in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (7507) Israel in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).