(2142) Landau
Asteroid (2142) Landau |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Asteroid family | Themis family |
Major semi-axis | 3.1675 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1158 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.8007 AU - 3.5343 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 0.6625 ° |
Sidereal period | 5.64 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 16.73 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Medium diameter | approx. 20 km |
Absolute brightness | 12.0 mag |
history | |
Explorer | LI Chernych |
Date of discovery | April 3, 1972 |
Another name | 1972 GA, 1960 DB, 1974 SL 1 , 1977 EE |
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. |
(2142) Landau is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on April 3, 1972 by the Russian astronomer Lyudmila Ivanovna Tschernych at the Crimean Observatory ( IAU code 095) in Nautschnyj .
The asteroid was named after the Soviet physicist and member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences Lev Dawidowitsch Landau (1908–1968), who worked on the Soviet hydrogen bomb project in the late 1940s and early 1950s and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1962 .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Landau: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (2142) Landau in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (2142) Landau in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).