(13069) Umbertoeco
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Asteroid (13069) Umbertoeco |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3721 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2486 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.7823 AU - 2.9619 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 7.3347 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 357.9413 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 80.6324 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.65 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.1 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | September 6, 1991 |
| Another name | 1991 RX 1 , 1984 WV 1 , 1989 EU 11 , 1995 WY 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. | |
(13069) Umbertoeco is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 6 September 1991 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at de Observatoire Haute-Provence ( IAU code 511) in the southeast of France was discovered.
The asteroid was named on October 4, 2009 after the Italian writer , columnist , philosopher and media scientist Umberto Eco (1932-2016), who became world famous for his novels The Name of the Rose and The Foucault Pendulum .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Umbertoeco: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (13069) Umbertoeco in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (13069) Umbertoeco in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).