(7960) Condorcet
Asteroid (7960) Condorcet |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 2.1846 AU |
eccentricity | 0.0737 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0235 AU - 2.3456 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.2448 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 293.9488 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 296.5443 ° |
Sidereal period | 3.23 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 20.14 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 13.8 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
Date of discovery | August 10, 1994 |
Another name | 1994 PW 16 , 1991 TP 2 , 1993 DM 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. |
(7960) Condorcet is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 10 August 1994 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory ( IAU code in 809) Chile was discovered. The first sightings of the asteroid had already been made in October 1991 under the provisional designation 1991 TP2 at the Thuringian State Observatory Tautenburg (IAU code 033).
(7960) Condorcet was named after the French philosopher , mathematician and politician of the Enlightenment Marquis de Condorcet named (1743-1794).
See also
Web links
- (7960) Condorcet in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (7960) Condorcet in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)
- Discovery Circumstances of (7960) Condorcet according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Observations from (7960) Condorcet on minorplanetcenter.net (English)