(22694) Tyndall
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Asteroid (22694) Tyndall |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Maria family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.5359 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1010 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.2797 AU - 2.7921 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 14.9426 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 13.1344 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 271.2778 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.04 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.2 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | August 26, 1998 |
| Another name | 1998 QF 104 , 1978 RM 6 , 1986 TY 2 |
| 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. | |
(22694) Tyndall is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 26 August 1998 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( IAU code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile was discovered.
The asteroid was named on June 1, 2007 after the British physicist John Tyndall (1820-1893), who researched the movement of glaciers and discovered the Tyndall effect named after him while studying light scattering .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Tyndall: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (22694) Tyndall in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (22694) Tyndall in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).