(18059) Cavalieri
Asteroid (18059) Cavalieri |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 2.6970 AU |
eccentricity | 0.0591 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.5376 AU - 2.8564 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 8.8409 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 298.1122 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 290.0744 ° |
Sidereal period | 4.43 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 18.14 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Medium diameter | 7.02 ± 0.222 km |
Albedo | 0.431 ± 0.105 |
Absolute brightness | 12.4 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Paul G. Comba |
Date of discovery | December 15, 1999 |
Another name | 1999 XL 137 , 1980 PE 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. |
(18059) Cavalieri is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 15 December 1999 by the American Italo- astronomer Paul G. Comba at Prescott Observatory ( IAU code 684) in Prescott , Arizona was discovered.
The asteroid was named on March 9, 2001 after the Italian Jesuaten monk , mathematician and astronomer Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598–1647), who taught at the University of Bologna and developed the principle of indivisibility and the Cavalier principle named after him .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Cavalieri: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (18059) Cavalieri in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (18059) Cavalieri in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).