(29250) Helmutmoritz
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Asteroid (29250) Helmutmoritz |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Dora family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.7756 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1708 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.3015 AU - 3.2497 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 7.5869 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.62 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.1 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Freimut Börngen Lutz D. Schmadel |
| Date of discovery | September 24, 1992 |
| Another name | 1992 SO 17 , 1985 DR 2 , 1999 GY |
| 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. | |
(29250) Helmutmoritz is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on September 24, 1992 by the German astronomers Freimut Börngen and Lutz D. Schmadel at the Thuringian State Observatory Tautenburg ( IAU code 033) in Thuringia .
The asteroid was named after the Austrian geodesist Helmut Moritz (* 1933), who, as professor of physical geodesy, is one of the most important representatives of this field.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Helmutmoritz: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (29250) Helmutmoritz in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (29250) Helmutmoritz in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).