(1795) Woltjer
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Asteroid (1795) Woltjer |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Dora family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.7861 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1882 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.2618 AU - 3.3103 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 7.547 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4,650 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.844 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 27.10 km |
| Albedo | 0.046 |
| Rotation period | ? H |
| Absolute brightness | 11.99 likes |
| Spectral class | Ch |
| history | |
| Explorer |
CJ and I. van Houten-Groeneveld , T. Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | September 24, 1960 |
| Another name | 4010 PL, 1950 LE 1 , 1955 QM |
| 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. | |
(1795) Woltjer is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on September 24, 1960 by the Dutch research team Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels as part of the Palomar-Leiden survey .
The asteroid is named after the Dutch astronomer Jan Woltjer .