(29613) Charlespicard
Asteroid (29613) Charlespicard |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 2.1230 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1372 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 1.8318 AU - 2.4143 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.6985 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 182.2974 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 135.1702 ° |
Sidereal period | 3.09 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 20.44 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 16.5 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Paul G. Comba |
Date of discovery | September 16, 1998 |
Another name | 1998 SB 2 , 2000 DR 16 |
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. |
(29613) Charlespicard is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 16 September 1998 by the American Italo- astronomer Paul G. Comba at Prescott Observatory ( IAU code in 684) Arizona was discovered.
The asteroid was named on January 28, 2002 after the French mathematician Charles Émile Picard (1856-1941), who mainly dealt with function theory , analysis , algebra and geometry and who became famous for the Picardian theorem named after him .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Charlespicard: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (29613) Charlespicard in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (29613) Charlespicard in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).