(19149) Boccaccio
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Asteroid (19149) Boccaccio |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt |
| Major semi-axis | 3.3809 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0751 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 3.1269 AU - 3.6349 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 6.7309 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 187.7818 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 281.5224 ° |
| Sidereal period | 6.22 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.20 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 12.7 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | EW Elst |
| Date of discovery | March 2, 1990 |
| Another name | 1990 EZ 2 , 1993 RB 17 |
| 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. | |
(19149) Boccaccio is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 2 March 1990 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory ( IAU code 809) in Chile was discovered.
The asteroid was named on July 13, 2004 after the Italian humanist , writer and poet Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), whose volume Il Decamerone , created between 1349 and 1351, has become the model for other Western short story collections.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Boccaccio: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (19149) Boccaccio in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (19149) Boccaccio in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).