(17579) Lewkopelew
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Asteroid (17579) Lewkopelew |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Vesta family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3500 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1403 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0201 AU - 2.6798 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 7.0703 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.60 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.43 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 15.3 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Freimut Börngen |
| Date of discovery | 5th October 1994 |
| Another name | 1994 TQ 16 , 1976 UN 7 |
| 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. | |
(17579) Lewkopelew is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on October 5, 1994 by the German astronomer Freimut Börngen at the Thuringian state observatory in Tautenburg ( IAU code 033) in Thuringia .
The asteroid was named after the Russian Germanist and writer Lev Zinovievich Kopelew (1912–1997).
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Lewkopelew: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (17579) Lewkopelew in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (17579) Lewkopelew in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).