(11520) Pious

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Asteroid
(11520) Pious
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  December 9, 2014 ( JD 2,457,000.5)
Orbit type Main belt asteroid
Asteroid family Levin family
Major semi-axis 2.2858  AU
eccentricity 0.0961
Perihelion - aphelion 2.0661 AU - 2.5055 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 5.5832 °
Length of the ascending node 15.5686 °
Argument of the periapsis 96.3833 °
Sidereal period 3.46 a
Mean orbital velocity 19.70 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness 14.3 mag
history
Explorer Eric Walter Elst
Date of discovery April 8, 1991
Another name 1991 GE 8 , 1989 VE 5
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.

(11520) Fromm is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 8 April 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 AstDyS-2 database lists (11520) Fromm as a member of the Levin family, named after the asteroid (2076) Levin .

The asteroid was named on May 23, 2000 after the German - American psychoanalyst , philosopher and social psychologist Erich Fromm (1900–1980).

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Individual evidence

  1. The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)