(14015) Senancour
Asteroid (14015) Senancour |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 3.1522 AU |
eccentricity | 0.0934 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.8578 AU - 3.4466 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 5.9694 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 156.7011 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 311.5384 ° |
Sidereal period | 5.60 a |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 13.5 likes |
history | |
Explorer |
Eric Walter Elst Christian Pollas |
Date of discovery | January 16, 1994 |
Another name | 1994 BD 4 , 1981 UZ 22 |
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. |
(14015) Senancour is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on January 16, 1994 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst and his French colleague Christian Pollas at the Observatoire de Calern ( observatory code 010) north of the city of Grasse in southern France.
The asteroid was named on January 27, 2013 after the French writer Étienne Pivert de Senancour (1770-1846), a forerunner of Romanticism, whose best-known work is Oberman. Novel in letters is strongly influenced by the ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Senancour: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (14015) Senancour in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (14015) Senancour in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).