(16674) Birkeland
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Asteroid (16674) Birkeland |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.6153 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0800 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.4061 AU - 2.8245 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 8.4617 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 277.0558 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 46.0726 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.23 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.1 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Eric Walter Elst Christian Pollas |
| Date of discovery | January 16, 1994 |
| Another name | 1994 BK 3 |
| 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. | |
(16674) Birkeland is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 16 January 1994 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst and his French colleague Christian Pollas the Observatoire de Calern ( IAU code was discovered 910).
The asteroid was named on July 26, 2010 after the Norwegian physicist Kristian Olaf Birkeland (1867-1917), who studied the aurora borealis intensively from the mid-1890s . He has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics seven times without ever receiving the coveted award.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Birkeland: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (16674) Birkeland in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (16674) Birkeland in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).