(9102) Foglar
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Asteroid (9102) Foglar |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.0754 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0898 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.7992 AU - 3.3517 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.7785 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 80.2937 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 16.2873 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.39 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.98 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.1 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Miloš Tichý Zdeněk Moravec |
| Date of discovery | December 12, 1996 |
| Another name | 1996 XS 18 |
| 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. | |
(9102) Foglar is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on December 12, 1996 by the Czech astronomers Miloš Tichý and Zdeněk Moravec at the Kleť observatory ( IAU code 046) near the town of Český Krumlov in Bohemia .
The asteroid was named on July 28, 1999 after the Czech writer and author of books for young people, Jaroslav Foglar (1907–1999), who devoted his entire life as a group leader to the scouting movement .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Foglar: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Foglar in the Small-Body Database of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9102) Foglar in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).