(30828) Bethe
Asteroid (30828) Bethe |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt |
Major semi-axis | 2.3228 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1257 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0309 AU - 2.6147 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.9553 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 228.6719 ° |
Sidereal period | 3.54 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 19.53 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 15.1 mag |
history | |
Explorer |
Freimut Börngen Lutz D. Schmadel |
Date of discovery | October 12, 1990 |
Another name | 1990 TK 4 , 1997 TR 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. |
(30828) Bethe is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on October 12, 1990 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 German - American physicist Hans Bethe named (1906-2005), who at the invitation of Robert Oppenheimer at the atomic bomb and hydrogen bomb cooperated and 1967 the first physicist to Nobel Prize in physics for a topic from the Astrophysics (his work about the energy conversion into stars from 1938).
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Bethe: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (30828) Bethe in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (30828) Bethe in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).