(32809) Sommerfeld
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Asteroid (32809) Summer Field |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt |
| Asteroid family | Clytaemnestra family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.9904 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0923 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.7142 AU - 3.2665 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 8.4181 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 357.3644 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.17 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.21 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.5 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Freimut Börngen Lutz D. Schmadel |
| Date of discovery | October 10, 1990 |
| Another name | 1990 TJ 10 , 2000 QA 56 |
| 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. | |
(32809) Sommerfeld is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on October 10, 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 mathematician and physicist Arnold Sommerfeld (1868–1951), who is one of the creators of modern theoretical physics and whose so-called Sommerfeld School of Theoretical Physics strongly influenced the development of their science.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Sommerfeld: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (32809) Sommerfeld in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (32809) Sommerfeld in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).