(10509) Heinrichkayser
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Asteroid (10509) Heinrichkayser |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.0584 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1905 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.4759 AU - 3.6410 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.8934 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 194.8896 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 242.8534 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.35 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.01 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Rotation period | 6.5639 h |
| Absolute brightness | 12.8 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | April 3, 1989 |
| Another name | 1989 GD 4 , 1971 XD, 1976 UW 4 , 1983 BK, 1986 RS 4 , 1999 BC 25 |
| 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. | |
(10509) Heinrich Kayser is an asteroid of the main belt , which on April 3, 1989 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( IAU code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile was discovered.
The asteroid was named on March 20, 2000 after the German physicist Heinrich Gustav Johannes Kayser (1853–1940), who discovered the occurrence of helium in the earth's atmosphere .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Heinrichkayser: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (10509) Heinrichkayser in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (10509) Heinrichkayser in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).