(2187) La Silla

Asteroid (2187) La Silla
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Orbit type	Middle main belt
Major semi-axis	2.535 AU
eccentricity	0.118
Perihelion - aphelion	2.235 AU - 2.835 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane	13.261 °
Length of the ascending node	137.274 °
Argument of the periapsis	214.214 °
Time of passage of the perihelion	February 11, 2016
Sidereal period	4.04 a
Physical Properties
Medium diameter	12.32 ± 0.093 km
Albedo	0.054 ± 0.004
Rotation period	11.843 h
Absolute brightness	13.3 mag
history
Explorer	Richard Martin West
Date of discovery	October 24, 1976
Another name	1976 UH
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(2187) La Silla ( 1976 UH ) is an asteroid of the central main belt discovered by the Danish astronomer Richard Martin West on October 24, 1976 at the European Southern Observatory in Chile ( IAU code 262).

designation

(2187) La Silla was named after the mountain La Silla in the Atacama Desert in Chile, on which the La Silla Observatory is located. The La Silla Observatory is part of the European Southern Observatory where the asteroid was discovered.

Web links

(2187) La Silla in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
(2187) La Silla in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .

Individual evidence

^ Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition. Ed .: Lutz D. Schmadel. 5th edition. Springer Verlag , Berlin , Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7 , pp. 178 (English, 992 pp., Link.springer.com [ONLINE; accessed October 25, 2017] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “Named for the mountain in the Chilean Atacama desert on the top of which the European Southern Observatory is situated. "

[1] Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition. Ed .: Lutz D. Schmadel. 5th edition. Springer Verlag , Berlin , Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7 , pp. 178 (English, 992 pp., Link.springer.com [ONLINE; accessed October 25, 2017] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “Named for the mountain in the Chilean Atacama desert on the top of which the European Southern Observatory is situated. "