(11212) Tebbutt
Asteroid (11212) Tebbutt |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 2.2791 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1343 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 1.9730 AU - 2.5851 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.1270 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 79.5314 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 132.0455 ° |
Sidereal period | 3.44 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 19.72 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 14.6 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Frank B. Zoltowski |
Date of discovery | April 18, 1999 |
Another name | 1999 HS , 1976 UA 13 , 1978 EL 6 , 1997 WZ 33 |
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. |
(11212) Tebbutt is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 18 April 1999 by the Australian amateur astronomer Frank B. Zoltowski from his private observatory ( IAU code 426) in Woomera was discovered from.
The asteroid was named on October 13, 2000 after the Australian astronomer John Tebbutt (1834-1916), whose name is associated with the Great Comets of 1861 and 1888 and who observed the Venus transit of 1874.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Tebbutt: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (11212) Tebbutt in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (11212) Tebbutt in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).