(18055) Fernhildebrandt
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Asteroid (18055) Fernhildebrandt |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Eunomia family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.6904 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1235 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.3580 AU - 3.0227 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 11.1331 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.41 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.15 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.7 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Gary Hug Graham E. Bell |
| Date of discovery | October 11, 1999 |
| Another name | 1999 TJ 13 , 1953 EG 2 , 1988 BT 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. | |
(18055) Remote Hildebrandt is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 11 October 1999 by the US amateur astronomer Gary Hug and Graham E. Bell at Farpoint Observatory ( IAU code 734) in Kansas was discovered.
The asteroid was named after Fern C. Hildebrandt (* 1927), who interested Gary Hug in astronomy in his youth and who kept motivated him.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Fernhildebrandt: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (18055) Fernhildebrandt in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (18055) Fernhildebrandt in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).