(22299) Georgesteiner
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Asteroid (22299) geo-rock |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Middle main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.5341 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0646 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.3705 AU - 2.6977 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 11.4120 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 358.9593 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 310.7267 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.03 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.5 likes |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | April 15, 1990 |
| Another name | 1990 GS , 1974 HK 1 , 1974 HZ |
| 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. | |
(22299) Georgesteiner is an asteroid of the central main belt discovered on April 15, 1990 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory in Chile ( IAU code 809). The asteroid had already been sighted in April 1974 under the provisional designations 1974 HK 1 and 1994 HZ at the Chilean observatory Cerro El Roble .
(22299) Georgesteiner was named on June 2, 2015 after the writer , literary scholar and cultural critic George Steiner . His work from 1975, “After Babel. Aspects of Language and Translation ”(published in German translation as Nach Babel. Aspects of Language and Translation ).
See also
Web links
- (22299) Georgesteiner in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (22299) Georgesteiner in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- Discovery Circumstances of (22299) Georgesteiner according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ (22299) Georgesteiner at the IAU Minor Planet Center (English)