(14100) Weierstrasse
Asteroid (14100) Weierstrass |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 3.1263 AU |
eccentricity | 0.0960 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.8261 AU - 3.4265 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 0.5791 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 190.3185 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 35.7945 ° |
Sidereal period | 5.53 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 16.83 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 13.5 likes |
history | |
Explorer | Paul G. Comba |
Date of discovery | September 8, 1997 |
Another name | 1997 RQ 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. |
(14100) Weierstrass is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 8 September 1997 by the Italian-American astronomer Paul G. Comba on Observatory Prescott ( IAU code 684) in Arizona was discovered.
The asteroid was named on May 23, 2000 after the German mathematician Karl Weierstraß (1815-1897), whose main work was the logically correct foundation of analysis and the development of function theory on the basis of power series expansions .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Weierstrass: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (14100) Weierstrass in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (14100) Weierstrass in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).