(10392) Brace
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Asteroid (10392) Brace |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4017 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1361 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0749 AU - 2.7286 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.4825 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 264.5795 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 79.8031 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.72 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.21 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.9 likes |
| history | |
| Explorer | Robert Linderholm |
| Date of discovery | September 11, 1997 |
| Another name | 1997 RP 7 , 1974 OP 1 , 1978 QO 3 , 1982 UG 9 |
| 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. | |
(10392) Brace is an asteroid of the main belt , the September 11, 1997 by US amateur astronomers Robert Linderholm its private Lime Creek Observatory ( IAU code 721) in Cambridge in Nebraska was discovered.
The asteroid was named on July 28, 1999 after the American physicist DeWitt Bristol Brace (1858-1905), who founded the physics laboratory at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1888 and was involved in experiments on the state of motion of the earth in the ether (ether wind) , the results were all negative.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Brace: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (10392) Brace in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (10392) Brace in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).