(8000) Isaac Newton
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Asteroid (8000) Isaac Newton |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Asteroid family | Eos family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.068 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.083 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.814 AU - 3.322 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 9.7 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 10.2 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 301.8 ° |
| Sidereal period | 1963 d |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | approx. 11 km |
| Absolute brightness | 12.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Henri Debehogne |
| Date of discovery | 5th September 1986 |
| Another name | 1986 RL 5 , 1981 RS 3 , 1981 UG 11 , 1988 AS 4 , 1995 EE |
| 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. | |
(8000) Isaac Newton is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 5 September 1986 by the Belgian astronomer Henri DEBEHOGNE at La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory ( IAU code 262) in Chile was discovered.
The asteroid belongs to the Eos family, an asteroid family named after (221) Eos .
It was named on February 11, 1998 after Isaac Newton , who achieved great achievements in the fields of physics and mathematics and is therefore one of the most important scientists of all time.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family affiliation of (8000) Isaac Newton in the AstDyS-2 database (English)
Web links
- Asteroid Isaac Newton: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Isaac Newton in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (8000) Isaac Newton in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).