(9630) Castellion
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Asteroid (9630) Castellion |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.7718 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1570 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.3367 AU - 3.2070 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.7999 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 329.8161 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 340.9282 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.61 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.88 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.0 likes |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | August 15, 1993 |
| Another name | 1993 PW 7 , 1984 SW 1 |
| 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. | |
(9630) Castellion is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 15 August 1993 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the observatory Caussols ( IAU code 010) in the south of France was discovered.
The asteroid was named on May 1, 2003 after the French humanist scholar and philosopher Sebastian Castellio (1515–1563), whose ideas of tolerance and religious freedom had a major influence on both Socinianism and the Early Enlightenment and Pietism .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Castellion: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Castellion in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9630) Castellion in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).