(11520) Pious
Asteroid (11520) Pious |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
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).
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Fromm: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (11520) Fromm in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (11520) Fromm in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)