(30826) Coulomb
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Asteroid (30826) Coulomb |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt |
| Major semi-axis | 3.0329 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1958 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.4390 AU - 3.6267 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 5.6478 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 346.0686 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 51.1201 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.28 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.11 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.7 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Lutz D. Schmadel Freimut Börngen |
| Date of discovery | October 10, 1990 |
| Another name | 1990 TS 1 , 1995 SN 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. | |
(30826) Coulomb is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on October 10, 1990 by the German astronomers Lutz D. Schmadel and Freimut Börngen at the Thuringian state observatory in Tautenburg ( IAU code 033) in Thuringia .
The asteroid was named on April 27, 2002 after the French physicist Charles Augustin de Coulomb (1736-1806), who founded electrostatics and magnetostatics and gave his name to the law , the force and the unit of electrical charge .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Coulomb: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (30826) Coulomb in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (30826) Coulomb in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).