(12612) Daumier
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Asteroid (12612) Daumier |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4553 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0908 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.2323 AU - 2.6783 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 5.2590 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 176.5917 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 73.9543 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.85 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.5 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld , Tom Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | September 24, 1960 |
| Another name | 2592 PL , 1993 BC 7 |
| 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. | |
(12612) Daumier 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 April 2, 1999 after the French painter , sculptor , graphic artist and caricaturist Honoré Daumier (1808–1879), who gained importance as an important representative of realism through his political and socially critical caricatures.
See also
Web links
- (12612) Daumier in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (12612) Daumier in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- Discovery Circumstances by (12612) Daumier according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)