(30852) Debye
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Asteroid (30852) Debye |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt |
| Major semi-axis | 2.1693 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1556 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.8317 AU - 2.5070 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.3249 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 299.3278 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 310.9017 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.20 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 20.22 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 1.990 ± 0.228 km |
| Albedo | 0.281 |
| Absolute brightness | 15.2 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Freimut Börngen Lutz D. Schmadel |
| Date of discovery | October 2, 1991 |
| Another name | 1991 TR 6 , 1994 PJ 8 |
| 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. | |
(30852) Debye is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on October 2, 1991 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 on April 27, 2002 after the Dutch physicist and chemist Peter Debye (1884–1966), who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1936 .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Debye: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (30852) Debye in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (30852) Debye in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).