(14400) Baudot
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Asteroid (14400) Baudot |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.6847 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2375 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0472 AU - 3.3221 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.6260 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 202.0900 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 270.3582 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.40 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.18 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.5 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | November 16, 1990 |
| Another name | 1990 WO 4 , 1996 FP 2 |
| 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. | |
(14400) Baudot is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 16 November 1990 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( IAU code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile was discovered.
The asteroid was named after the French engineer and inventor Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot (1845-1903), who in 1870 developed the Baudot code named after him for telegraphic transmission.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Baudot: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (14400) Baudot in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (14400) Baudot in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).