(13669) Swammerdam
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Asteroid (13669) Swammerdam |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.5363 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0832 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.3253 AU - 2.7473 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.3859 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 171.2995 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 173.8639 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.04 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 15.0 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | May 3, 1997 |
| Another name | 1997 JS 14 , 1994 TA 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. | |
(13669) Swammerdam is an asteroid of the main belt , which on May 3, 1997 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( observatory code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile was discovered.
The asteroid was named on July 22, 2013 after the Dutch naturalist Jan Swammerdam (1637–1680), who was the first to describe the red blood cells he discovered under the microscope and who is considered the founder of the theory of preformations .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Swammerdam: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (13669) Swammerdam in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (13669) Swammerdam in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).