(17466) Vargasllosa
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Asteroid (17466) Vargasllosa |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Inner main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.2767 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1003 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0484 AU - 2.5051 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 7.5123 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 113.2781 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 49.6919 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.44 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | November 15, 1990 |
| Another name | 1990 VL 4 |
| 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. | |
(17466) Vargasllosa is an asteroid of the main inner belt that was discovered on November 15, 1990 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory in Chile ( IAU code 809).
The asteroid was named after the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa on May 14, 2014 . His novel “ The Green House ” ( La casa verde ) from 1966 and his receipt of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2010 “for his cartography of power structures and sharp-edged images of individual resistance, turmoil and defeat” are highlighted in the dedication .
See also
Web links
- (17466) Vargasllosa in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (17466) Vargasllosa in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- Discovery Circumstances of (17466) Vargasllosa that according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)