(17637) Blaschke
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Asteroid (17637) Blaschke |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Vesta family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3768 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1356 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0544 AU - 2.6991 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 7.4171 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.66 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.31 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.9 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Paul G. Comba |
| Date of discovery | August 11, 1996 |
| Another name | 1996 PA 1 |
| 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. | |
(17637) Blaschke is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 11 August 1996 by the Italian-American astronomer Paul G. Comba on Observatory Prescott ( IAU code 684) in Arizona was discovered.
The asteroid was named after the Austrian mathematician Wilhelm Blaschke (1885–1962), who taught as a professor in Hamburg from 1919 and developed the university there into a center for mathematical research. His own focus of work was in the field of differential geometry , the development of which he significantly advanced.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Blaschke: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (17637) Blaschke in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (17637) Blaschke in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).