(33017) Vronsky

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Asteroid
(33017) Vronsky
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  June 27, 2015 ( JD 2,457,200.5)
Orbit type Main belt asteroid
Asteroid family Veritas family
Major semi-axis 3.1608  AU
eccentricity 0.0345
Perihelion - aphelion 3.0516 AU - 3.2700 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 10.0364 °
Length of the ascending node 47.6603 °
Argument of the periapsis 184.3650 °
Sidereal period 5.62 a
Physical Properties
Rotation period 3.7646 h
Absolute brightness 12.9 mag
history
Explorer Eric Walter Elst
Date of discovery April 9, 1997
Another name 1997 GM 41
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.

(33017) Wronski is an asteroid of the main belt , which on April 9, 1997 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 is a member of the Veritas family, a group of asteroids named after (490) Veritas and probably formed 8.3 (± 0.5) million years ago when an asteroid with a diameter of 150 km broke apart.

(33017) Wronski was named on January 22, 2008 after the Polish philosopher and mathematician Josef Hoëné-Wronski (1778-1853), who defined " messianism " in philosophy , which as an absolute philosophy should comprehensively renew humanity. In mathematics, Wronsky proposed a series expansion for functions whose coefficients are the so-called Wronsky determinants today.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)
  2. ↑ Kenneth A. Farley , David Vokrouhlický , William Bottke , David Nesvorný : A late Miocene dust shower from the break-up of an asteroid in the main belt . Nature , Vol. 439, pp. 295ff, January 19, 2006 (English)

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