(9389) Condillac
|
Asteroid (9389) Condillac |
|
|---|---|
| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.2429 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1161 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.9825 AU - 2.5033 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.9582 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 114.6940 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 163.6373 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.36 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.88 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.8 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | March 9, 1994 |
| Another name | 1994 ET 6 , 1982 XP 4 , 1998 ML 26 |
| 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. | |
(9389) Condillac is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 9 March 1994 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the Observatoire de Calern ( IAU code 010) north of Grasse was discovered.
The asteroid was named after the French clergyman ( Abbé von Muréaux ), philosopher and logician of the Enlightenment Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714–1780), who developed a sensualistic epistemology based on the ideas of John Locke and inspired Denis Diderot with his Traité des sensations .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Condillac: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Condillac in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9389) Condillac in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).