(13109) Berzelius
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Asteroid (13109) Berzelius |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4143 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1804 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.9788 AU - 2.8498 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 6.1340 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 232.8041 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 275.4544 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.75 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.5 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | May 14, 1993 |
| Another name | 1993 JB 1 , 1970 EE 2 , 1989 GV 2 , 1991 VV 13 |
| 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. | |
(13109) Berzelius is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 14 May 1993 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 asteroid was named on April 9, 2009 after the Swedish physician and chemist Jöns Jakob Berzelius (1779–1848), who introduced the chemical sign language with the letters for the chemical elements and developed a first model for understanding electrolysis .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Berzelius: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (13109) Berzelius in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (13109) Berzelius in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).