(30835) Waterloo
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Asteroid (30835) Waterloo |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3859 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1391 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0541 AU - 2.7177 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 5.2870 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 175.2448 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 186.3455 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.69 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 15.1 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | November 21, 1990 |
| Another name | 1990 WB 7 , 1975 TG 7 , 1996 HO 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. | |
(30835) Waterloo is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 21 November 1990 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( IAU code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile was discovered.
The asteroid was named on June 2, 2015 after the municipality of Waterloo in the province of Walloon Brabant in Belgium , in the vicinity of which the Battle of Waterloo was fought on June 18, 1815 , the outcome of which ended Napoleon's reign of the Hundred Days and with his final abdication on June 22, 1815 led to the end of the French Empire .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Waterloo: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (30835) Waterloo in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (30835) Waterloo in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).