(8103) Fermi
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Asteroid (8103) Fermi |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.9718 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0380 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.8588 AU - 3.0849 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 6.8715 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 185.4250 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 61.4910 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.12 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.28 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Rotation period | 5.262 h |
| Absolute brightness | 13.5 likes |
| history | |
| Explorer | Farra d'Isonzo Observatory |
| Date of discovery | January 19, 1994 |
| Another name | 1994 BE |
| 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. | |
(8103) Fermi is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 19 January 1994 at Farra d'Isonzo-Observatory ( observatory code 595) in the municipality of Farra d'Isonzo in the region of Friuli Venezia Giulia was discovered.
The asteroid was named on February 2, 1999 after the Italian nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his research in 1938 and played an important role in the development and construction of the first as an advisor to Robert Oppenheimer Played atomic bombs .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Fermi: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Fermi in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (8103) Fermi in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).