(9588) Quesnay
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Asteroid (9588) Quesnay |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.5896 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2122 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0402 AU - 3.1390 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 13.1692 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 202.3092 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 89.9953 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.17 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.50 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.3 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | November 18, 1990 |
| Another name | 1990 WE 2 , 1955 HY, 1973 UH 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. | |
(9588) Quesnay is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 18 November 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 was named on March 18, 2003 after the French doctor and economist François Quesnay (1694–1774), who is considered the founder of the physiocratic school of economics.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Quesnay: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Quesnay in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9588) Quesnay in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).