(29427) Oswald Thomas
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Asteroid (29427) Oswald Thomas |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.1873 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0843 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0029 AU - 2.3718 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 5.2018 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 164.2122 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.23 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 20.13 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 16.6 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Erich Meyer |
| Date of discovery | March 7, 1997 |
| Another name | 1997 EJ 11 , 1995 UA 37 |
| 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. | |
(29427) Oswaldthomas is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on March 7, 1997 by the Austrian amateur astronomer Erich Meyer at the Davidschlag observatory ( IAU code 540) near Linz in Austria .
The asteroid was named on January 7, 2004 after the astronomer Oswald Thomas (1882–1963), the founder of the Austrian Astronomical Society and the Vienna Planetarium .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Oswaldthomas: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (29427) Oswaldthomas in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (29427) Oswaldthomas in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- Private observatory Meyer / Obermair (English)