(16583) Oersted
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Asteroid (16583) Oersted |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.2319 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0519 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 3.0641 AU - 3.3998 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 22.6310 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 135.4035 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 144.2640 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.81 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 22.102 ± 0.223 km |
| Albedo | 0.045 ± 0.007 |
| Absolute brightness | 12.2 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | July 26, 1992 |
| Another name | 1992 OH 2 , 1978 CL, 1978 EK 1 , 1999 VY 87 |
| 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. | |
(16583) Oersted is an asteroid of the main outer belt that was discovered on July 26, 1992 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory ( IAU code 809) in Chile .
The asteroid was named on July 22, 2013 after the Danish chemist and physicist Hans Christian Ørsted (1777-1851), who discovered the magnetic effect of electric current in 1820 and was instrumental in founding the Polytechnic School in 1829 ( Danish Den Polytekniske Læreanstalt ) in Copenhagen, the predecessor of today's Technical University of Denmark . He is the name giver for the unit of magnetic field strength (abbreviated with the unit symbol Oe).
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Oersted: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (16583) Oersted in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (16583) Oersted in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).