(13682) Pressberger
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Asteroid (13682) Pressberger |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1884 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1021 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.8628 AU - 3.5139 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.8454 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 148.0858 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.69 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.69 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Erich Meyer Herbert Raab |
| Date of discovery | August 10, 1997 |
| Another name | 1997 PG 3 , 1995 EO 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. | |
(13682) Pressberger is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on August 10, 1997 by the Austrian amateur astronomers Erich Meyer and Herbert Raab at the Davidschlag observatory ( IAU code 540) near Linz in Austria .
The asteroid was named on July 26, 2000 after the Austrian mechanical engineer Rudolf Pressberger (1942-2001), who worked at the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Vienna from 1972 and developed an improved fork attachment for telescopes, which found its way into astronomy as the Austria Mount .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Pressberger: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (13682) Pressberger in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (13682) Pressberger in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- Private observatory Meyer / Obermair (English)