(1953) Rupertwildt
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Asteroid (1953) Rupertwildt |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Themis family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1117 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1836 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.5405 AU - 3.6829 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.4604 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.49 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.88 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | approx. 22 km |
| Absolute brightness | 11.9 likes |
| history | |
| Explorer | Goethe Link Observatory |
| Date of discovery | October 29, 1951 |
| Another name | 1951 UK, 1929 VC, 1929 WD, 1934 RJ, 1951 WG, 1958 BD |
| 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. | |
(1953) Rupertwildt is a main belt - Asteroid that on 29 October 1951 by astronomers of the Indiana Asteroid Program at Goethe Link Observatory ( IAU code 760) in Brooklyn in the State of Indiana was discovered.
The asteroid is named after the German-American astronomer Rupert Wildt (1905–1976), who was awarded the Eddington Medal in 1966 for his research on energy transport in the photosphere of the sun .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Rupertwildt: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (1953) Rupertwildt in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (1953) Rupertwildt in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).