(10057) L'Obel
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Asteroid (10057) L'Obel |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3707 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1403 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0381 AU - 2.7032 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.9829 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 126.3979 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 315.7565 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.65 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.34 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.2 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | EW Elst |
| Date of discovery | February 11, 1988 |
| Another name | 1988 CO 1 , 1994 VW |
| 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. | |
(10057) L'Obel is an asteroid of the main belt . It was discovered on February 11, 1988 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( IAU code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile .
The asteroid was named on May 23, 2000 after the Flemish botanist and personal physician of Jacob I of England , Matthias de L'Obel (1538–1616), who was also named with the Latinized name Lobelius . In 1570, in his work “Stirpium adversaria nova”, he described the habit of seafarers returning from America to smoke tobacco .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid L'Obel: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (10057) L'Obel in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (10057) L'Obel in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).