(32796) Honor Festival
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Asteroid (32796) Ehrenfest |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Eunomia family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.6602 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1554 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.2469 AU - 3.0736 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 12.8275 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 190.1370 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.34 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | March 2, 1990 |
| Another name | 1990 ET 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. | |
(32796) Ehrenfest is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 2 March 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 18, 2008 after the Austrian physicist Paul Ehrenfest (1880–1933), who from 1912 as professor of theoretical physics at the University of Leiden made important contributions to modern physics and has a connection with the Ehrenfest theorem named after him between classical mechanics and quantum mechanics .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Celebration of Honor: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (32796) Ehrenfest in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (32796) Celebration of honor in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).