(11041) Fechner
Asteroid (11041) Fechner |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt |
Major semi-axis | 2.3810 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1025 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.1370 AU - 2.6250 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 6.7915 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 165.4279 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 225.8027 ° |
Sidereal period | 3.67 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 19.29 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 15.1 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
Date of discovery | September 26, 1989 |
Another name | 1989 SH 2 , 1999 JR 96 |
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. |
(11041) Fechner is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 26 September 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 May 23, 2000 after the German physicist and natural philosopher Gustav Theodor Fechner , who is one of the most important representatives of a panpsychistic worldview and, together with Ernst Heinrich Weber, is one of the founders of psychophysics .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Fechner: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (11041) Fechner in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (11041) Fechner in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).