(18510) Chasles
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Asteroid (18510) Chasles |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt |
| Asteroid family | Misa family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.6610 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1397 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.2892 AU - 3.0328 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.7872 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 44.5732 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.34 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.25 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 15.8 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Paul G. Comba |
| Date of discovery | September 16, 1996 |
| Another name | 1996 SN, 1977 DW 3 , 1999 GT 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. | |
(18510) Chasles is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 16 September 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 French mathematician Michel Chasles (1793-1880), who was professor at the École polytechnique in Paris from 1841 and is one of the founders of the so-called newer geometry.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Chasles: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (18510) Chasles in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (18510) Chasles in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).