(13069) Umbertoeco
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).