14611 Elsaadawi
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Asteroid (14611) Elsaadawi |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Astraea family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.5826 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1510 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.1926 AU - 2.9726 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.0786 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 173.1030 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 255.7948 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.15 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 15.1 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | September 20, 1998 |
| Another name | 1998 SA 148 , 1977 RW 14 , 4055 T-1 |
| 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. | |
(14611) Elsaadawi is an asteroid located in the main belt , which was discovered on September 20, 1998 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( observatory code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile .
The asteroid was named on April 22, 2016 after the Egyptian writer , feminist and human rights activist Nawal El Saadawi (* 1931), who campaigned for the improvement of social and economic living conditions for women. It has been repeatedly attacked and threatened by fundamentalist and Islamist circles.
The celestial body belongs to the Astraea family, a group of asteroids named after (5) Astraea .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Elsaadawi: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (14611) Elsaadawi in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (14611) Elsaadawi in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ (14611) Elsaadawi in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).