(9592) Clairaut
Asteroid (9592) Clairaut |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Asteroid family | Koronis family |
Major semi-axis | 2.8326 AU |
eccentricity | 0.0793 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6080 AU - 3.0572 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 1.1276 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 230.8409 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 173.4188 ° |
Sidereal period | 4.77 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 17.69 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 13.2 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
Date of discovery | April 8, 1991 |
Another name | 1991 GK 4 , 1993 TV |
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. |
(9592) Clairaut is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 8 April 1991 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 is a member of the Koronis family, a group of asteroids named after (158) Koronis.
(9592) Clairaut was named on May 1, 2003 after the French mathematician , physicist and geodesist Alexis-Claude Clairaut (1713-1765), who predicted the return of Halley's comet for the year 1759 and based on the deviations between calculation and reality on the Existence of a still unknown celestial body concluded.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Clairaut: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Clairaut in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9592) Clairaut in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family membership of (9592) Clairaut in the AstDyS-2 database (English)