(16450) Messerschmidt
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Asteroid (16450) Messerschmidt |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Hygiea family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.2072 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1910 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.1631 AU - 3.1843 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 13.4104 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.37 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 12.8 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | September 26, 1989 |
| Another name | 1989 SW 8 , 1998 QE 93 |
| 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. | |
(16450) Messerschmidt is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 26 September 1989 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 on June 13, 2006 after the German naturalist Daniel Gottlieb Messerschmidt (1685–1735), who was sent on an expedition to Siberia by Russian Tsar Peter the Great between 1719 and 1728 to investigate rumors about natural phenomena such as frozen mammoths.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Messerschmidt: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (16450) Messerschmidt in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (16450) Messerschmidt in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).