(11042) Ernstweber

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Asteroid
(11042) Serious Weaver
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  4th November 2013 ( JD 2,456,600.5)
Orbit type Main belt
Asteroid family Vesta family
Major semi-axis 2.3450  AU
eccentricity 0.0656
Perihelion - aphelion 2.1912 AU - 2.4988 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 7.5355 °
Length of the ascending node 101.3767 °
Sidereal period 3.59 a
Mean orbital velocity 19.45 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness 14.8 mag
history
Explorer Eric Walter Elst
Date of discovery 3rd November 1989
Another name 1989 VD 1 , 1998 DK 9
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(11042) Ernst Weber is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 3 November 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 after the German physiologist and anatomist Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795–1878), who made important investigations into the mechanics of walking as well as the pressure, temperature and spatial sense and, together with Gustav Theodor Fechner, was one of the founders of psychophysics .

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