(9364) Clusius
Asteroid (9364) Clusius |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 2.7865 AU |
eccentricity | 0.0746 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.5787 AU - 2.9942 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.7022 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 13.1009 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 227.8906 ° |
Sidereal period | 4.65 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 17.84 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Medium diameter | 11.868 ± 0.092 |
Albedo | 0.063 ± 0.010 |
Rotation period | 8.9155 h |
Absolute brightness | 13.1 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
Date of discovery | April 23, 1992 |
Another name | 1992 HZ 3 , 1989 UD 5 |
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. |
(9364) Clusius is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 23 April 1992 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( IAU code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile was discovered.
The asteroid was on April 2, 1999 after the Dutch scholar, physician and botanist Carolus Clusius named (1526-1609), who in 1584 with nomenclator Stirpium Pannonicus the first Austrian botany written and made by his ministry Vienna into a center for floriculture . He was also known by the Latin name Carolus Clusius .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Clusius: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Clusius in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9364) Clusius in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).