(17412) Kroll
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Asteroid (17412) Kroll |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4055 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1517 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0406 AU - 2.7704 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 5.5668 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 84.1711 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 167.3650 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.73 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.20 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.9 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Werner Landgraf |
| Date of discovery | May 24, 1988 |
| Another name | 1988 KV , 1999 GD 40 |
| 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. | |
(17412) Kroll is an asteroid of the main belt , the May 24, 1988 by the German astronomer Werner Landgraf at the La Silla Observatory ( IAU code of 809) European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile was discovered.
The asteroid was named on March 9, 2001 after the German astrophysicist Reinhold Kroll (1955–2010), who at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) worked out the essential fundamentals for understanding the CP stars and was instrumental in setting up the Gregory Coudé solar telescope GCT at the Observatorio del Teide in Tenerife.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Kroll: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (17412) Kroll in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (17412) Kroll in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).