(210432) Dietmarhopp
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Asteroid (210432) Dietmarhopp |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main outer belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Ursula family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1080 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0742 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.8774 AU - 3.3386 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 18.0947 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 93.2725 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 25.1521 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | January 3, 2020 |
| Sidereal period | 5.48 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 3.467 km (± 0.469) |
| Albedo | 0.096 (± 0.027) |
| Absolute brightness | 15.5 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Felix Hormuth |
| Date of discovery | December 8, 2008 |
| Another name | 2008 XA 7 , 2002 XF 118 |
| 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. | |
(210432) Dietmarhopp is an asteroid of the outer main belt , which was discovered by the German astronomer Felix Hormuth on December 8, 2008 at the Spanish Calar Alto Observatory ( IAU code 493). The asteroid had already been sighted on December 3, 2002 under the provisional name 2002 XF 118 as part of the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking project at the Palomar Observatory .
The asteroid belongs to the Ursula family, a several billion year old asteroid family named after the asteroid (375) Ursula . In the AstDyS-2 database it is assigned to a family within the Ursula family whose largest asteroid (98984) 2001 is DK 25 .
(210432) Dietmarhopp was named after the German entrepreneur Dietmar Hopp on May 27, 2010 at the suggestion of Felix Hormuth . His Dietmar Hopp Foundation is highlighted in the dedication .
Web links
- (210432) Dietmarhopp in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (210432) Dietmar Hopp in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)
- Discovery Circumstances by (210432) Dietmarhopp according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ (210432) Dietmarhopp at the IAU Minor Planet Center (English)
- ↑ Valerio Carruba, David Nesvorný , Safwan Aljbaae, Rita de Cássia Domingos, Mariela Huaman Espinoza: On the oldest asteroid families in the main belt . Monthly Notes of the Royal Astronomical Society, March 3, 2016 ( PDF ; 1.422 MB)
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)
- ↑ Names for heavenly bodies. A minor planet for Martina Gedeck . Article by Tanja Banner from August 15, 2018 in the Frankfurter Rundschau