(14072) Volterra
Asteroid (14072) Volterra |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Asteroid family | Themis family |
Major semi-axis | 3.1552 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1602 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6497 AU - 3.6608 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 1.8761 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 38.2249 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 7.7267 ° |
Sidereal period | 5.60 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 16.77 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 13.4 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Paul G. Comba |
Date of discovery | May 21, 1996 |
Another name | 1996 KN 11 , 1986 PS 2 , 1998 WF 10 |
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. |
(14072) Volterra is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 21 May 1996 by the Italian-American astronomer Paul G. Comba at Prescott Observatory ( IAU code 684) in Arizona was discovered.
The asteroid belongs to the Themis family, a group of asteroids named after (24) Themis .
(14072) Volterra was named on May 23, 2000 after the Italian mathematician and physicist Vito Volterra (1860-1940), who mainly dealt with analysis and defined the Volterra equation named after him and the Volterra rules of population dynamics .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Volterra: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (14072) Volterra in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (14072) Volterra in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ (14072) Volterra in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).