(14439) Evermeersch
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Asteroid (14439) Evermeersch |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main outer belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Koronis family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.9313 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0854 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6809 AU - 3.1817 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 1.2305 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 347.7830 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 89.7989 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | 3rd January 2019 |
| Sidereal period | 5.02 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 5.133 (± 0.205) km |
| Albedo | 0.267 (± 0.047) |
| Absolute brightness | 13.7 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | 2nd September 1992 |
| Another name | 1992 RE 2 , 1998 XN 36 |
| 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. | |
(14439) Evermeersch is an asteroid of the outer main belt , which was discovered on September 2, 1992 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory in Chile ( IAU code 809).
The asteroid is a member of the Koronis family, a group of asteroids named after (158) Koronis . The timeless (non- osculating ) orbital elements of (14439) Evermeersch are almost identical to those of five smaller ones (if one considers the absolute brightness of 15.4, 15.4, 15.5, 17.2 and 17.0 compared to 13, 7) Asteroids: (43883) 1995 EK 2 , (71499) 2000 CV 20 , (164372) 2005 EU 67 , (383697) 2007 TF 406 and (470130) 2006 UN 28 .
(14439) Evermeersch was named on June 20, 2016 after the Belgian philosopher Etienne Vermeersch . His books “De ogen van de panda” from 1988 and “De rivier van Herakleitos” from 2008 were particularly mentioned in the dedication.
Web links
- (14439) Evermeersch in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (14439) Evermeersch in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- Discovery Circumstances of (14439) Evermeersch according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)