(10947) Kaiserstuhl
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Asteroid (10947) Kaiserstuhl |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3653 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1783 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.9435 AU - 2.7871 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.9572 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 320.2372 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 269.5516 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.64 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.36 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Rotation period | 3.1486 h |
| Absolute brightness | 14.5 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
C. J. and I. v. Houten-Groeneveld T. Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | September 24, 1960 |
| Another name | 2061 PL , 1984 BT 3 , 1988 GG 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. | |
(10947) Kaiserstuhl is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on September 24, 1960 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld . The discovery was made as part of the Palomar-Leiden survey , during which Tom Gehrels examined field plates recorded at the University of Leiden with the 120 cm Oschin Schmidt telescope of the Palomar observatory ( IAU code 675) .
The asteroid was named on May 1, 2003 after the Kaiserstuhl , a small low mountain range of volcanic origin in the southwest of Baden-Württemberg (Germany).
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Kaiserstuhl: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (10947) Kaiserstuhl in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (10947) Kaiserstuhl in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).