(9587) Bonpland
Asteroid (9587) Bonpland |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Asteroid family | Eunomia family |
Major semi-axis | 2.5769 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1645 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.1530 AU - 3,0008 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 13.8016 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 194.6656 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 80.0877 ° |
Sidereal period | 4.14 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 18.55 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 13.4 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
Date of discovery | October 16, 1990 |
Another name | 1990 UG 4 , 1988 BV 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. |
(9587) Bonpland is an asteroid of the main belt , the October 16, 1990 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 belongs to the Eunomia family, a group named after (15) Eunomia , to which probably five percent of the asteroids in the main belt belong.
(9587) Bonpland was named on March 18, 2003 after the French naturalist and botanist Aimé Bonpland (1773-1858), who took part in Alexander von Humboldt's American expedition (1799-1804) and collected more than 60,000 plant specimens.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Bonpland: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Bonpland in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9587) Bonpland in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)