(12540) Picander
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Asteroid (12540) Picander |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Koronis family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.8972 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0161 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.8505 AU - 2.9438 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 0.8933 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 261.1422 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 224.7259 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.93 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.49 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.0 likes |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | July 26, 1998 |
| Another name | 1998 OU 9 , 1979 TM 2 , 1979 WW 7 , 1996 DA 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. | |
(12540) Picander is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 26 July 1998 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory ( IAU code 809) in Chile was discovered. First sightings of the asteroid, it had already in October and November 1979 under the provisional designation 1979 and 1979 TM2 WW7 the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nautschnyj given.
The asteroid is a member of the Koronis family, a group of asteroids named after (158) Koronis.
(12540) Picander was named on July 13, 2004 after Picander , the pseudonym of Christian Friedrich Henrici (1700–1764), who was Johann Sebastian Bach's most important lyricist .
See also
Web links
- (12540) Picander in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (12540) Picander in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- Discovery Circumstances of (12540) Picander according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ (12540) Picander at the IAU Minor Planet Center (English)
- ↑ (12540) Picander in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).