(11063) Poynting
Asteroid (11063) Poynting |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt |
Major semi-axis | 2.6645 AU |
eccentricity | 0.2500 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 1.9984 AU - 3.3307 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 8.6150 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 101.9016 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 204.3849 ° |
Sidereal period | 4.35 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 18.26 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Rotation period | 7.926 h |
Absolute brightness | 12.9 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
Date of discovery | November 2, 1991 |
Another name | 1991 VC 6 , 1951 LK, 1986 PV, 1998 FK 87 |
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. |
(11063) Poynting is an asteroid of the main belt , which on November 2, 1991 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 English physicist John Henry Poynting (1852-1914), who worked in the field of electrodynamics and introduced the Poynting vector named after him .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Poynting: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (11063) Poynting in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (11063) Poynting in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).