(11040) Wundt
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Asteroid (11040) Wundt |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt |
| Major semi-axis | 2.2440 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1958 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.8046 AU - 2.6834 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 0.9170 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 60.1292 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 263.4219 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.36 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.88 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 15.5 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | 3rd September 1989 |
| Another name | 1989 RG 1 , 1998 FQ 3 |
| 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. | |
(11040) Wundt is an asteroid of the main belt , which on April 3, 1989 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at de Observatoire Haute-Provence ( IAU code 511) in the southeast of France was discovered.
The asteroid was named on May 23, 2000 after the German physiologist , psychologist and philosopher Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920), who is considered the founder of psychology as an independent science and a co-founder of ethnic psychology ( cultural psychology ).
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Wundt: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (11040) Wundt in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (11040) Wundt in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).