(10387) Bepicolombo
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Asteroid (10387) Bepicolombo |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Eunomia family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.6840 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1635 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.2450 AU - 3.1229 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 12.6693 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.40 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.18 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.7 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Piero Sicoli Francesco Manca |
| Date of discovery | October 18, 1996 |
| Another name | 1996 UQ, 1990 FT 2 |
| 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. | |
(10387) BepiColombo is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 18 October 1996 by the Italian astronomer Piero Sicoli and Francesco Manca at the Osservatorio Astronomico Sormano ( IAU code 587) in Sormano was discovered.
The asteroid was named after the Italian engineer and mathematician Giuseppe "Bepi" Colombo (1920–1984), who performed particularly well in calculating the trajectories for the Mariner 10 and Giotto missions.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Bepicolombo: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (10387) Bepicolombo in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (10387) Bepicolombo in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).