(11427) Willemkolff
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Asteroid (11427) Willemkolff |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1628 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0944 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.8642 AU - 3.4614 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 5.4707 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 178.7177 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 131.1290 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.62 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.0 likes |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld , Tom Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | September 24, 1960 |
| Another name | 2611 PL , 1998 KR 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. | |
(11427) Willemkolff is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on September 24, 1960 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld . The discovery came about as part of the Palomar-Leiden survey , during which Tom Gehrels examined field plates recorded at the University of Leiden with the 120 cm Oschin Schmidt telescope of the Palomar observatory .
The asteroid was named on September 26, 2007 after the Dutch internist Willem Kolff (1911–2009), who had the first drum dialyzer built in 1942 and thus achieved his first healing success in September 1945 after several failures.
See also
Web links
- (11427) Willemkolff in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (11427) Willemkolff in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- Discovery Circumstances by (11427) Willemkolff according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)