(9722) Levi-Montalcini
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Asteroid (9722) Levi-Montalcini |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4085 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1751 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.9867 AU - 2.8302 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 1.2466 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 20.4716 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 93.9796 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.74 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.9 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
H. Debehogne G. de Sanctis |
| Date of discovery | March 4th 1981 |
| Another name | 1981 EZ |
| 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. | |
(9722) Levi-Montalcini is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 4 March 1981 by the astronomer Henri DEBEHOGNE and Giovanni de Sanctis at the La Silla Observatory ( IAU code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile was discovered.
The asteroid was on 30 January 2010 after the Italian physician and neurobiologist Rita Levi-Montalcini named (1909-2012), discovered the body responsible for cell growth endogenous growth factors and 1986 together with Stanley Cohen with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Levi-Montalcini: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Levi-Montalcini in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9722) Levi-Montalcini in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).