(30828) Bethe

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Asteroid
(30828) Bethe
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  April 18, 2013 ( JD 2,456,400.5)
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
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(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).

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