(2485) Scheffler
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Asteroid (2485) Scheffler |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Outer main belt |
| Major semi-axis | 3.2388 ± 0.0002 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1996 ± 0.0004 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.5922 ± 0.0012 AU - 3.8855 ± 0.00002 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.7653 ± 0.0045 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 97.7429 ± 0.0001 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 352.2191 ± 0.0001 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | March 13, 2017 |
| Sidereal period | 5.83 a ± 0.1624 d |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 13.619 ± 0.185 km |
| Albedo | 0.061 ± 0.010 |
| Absolute brightness | 12.8 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
.svg){kind=small} Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth
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| Date of discovery | January 29, 1932 |
| Another name | 1932 BH ; 1953 VL 1 ; 1966 CP; 1977 BT |
| 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. | |
(2485) Scheffler ( 1932 BH ; 1953 VL 1 ; 1966 CP ; 1977 BT ) is an approximately 14 kilometers large asteroid of the outer main belt , which was discovered on January 29, 1932 by the German (then: Weimar Republic ) astronomer Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth at the State Observatory Heidelberg-Königstuhl was discovered on the western summit of the Königstuhl near Heidelberg ( IAU code 024).
designation
(2485) Scheffler was named after the German astronomer Helmut Scheffler (* 1928), an employee of the State Observatory Heidelberg-Königstuhl. From 1963 to 1991 he was professor of astronomy at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and made important contributions to the radiation transport in the outer stellar atmosphere of the sun , to the seeing and to the structure of the interstellar medium . Together with the German astronomer Hans Elsässer , after whom the asteroid (4385) Elsässer is named, Scheffler wrote the textbooks Physics of the Stars and the Sun and Physics of the Galaxy and Interstellar Matter . The naming was proposed by the German astronomers Gerhard Klare and Lutz D. Schmadel and supported by the American astronomer Edward LG Bowell .
See also
Web links
- (2485) Scheffler in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (2485) Scheffler in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
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. 186 (English, 992 pp., Link.springer.com [ONLINE; accessed on August 14, 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “1932 BH. Discovered 1932 Jan. 29 by K. Reinmuth at Heidelberg. "