(9561) van Eyck
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Asteroid (9561) van Eyck |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3069 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2235 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.7915 AU - 2.8224 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 5.4707 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.50 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.61 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.0 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | August 19, 1987 |
| Another name | 1987 QT 1 , 1990 EE 8 , 1990 EY 4 |
| 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. | |
(9561) van Eyck is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 19 August 1987 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 named after the Flemish painter and representative of Old Dutch painting Jan van Eyck (1395–1441), whose most famous work is the Ghent Altarpiece .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid van Eyck: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid van Eyck in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9561) van Eyck in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).