(36061) Haldane
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Asteroid (36061) Haldane |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main outer belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.2575 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0626 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 3.0537 AU - 3.4614 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.5117 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 108.5486 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 29.6382 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.88 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.51 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Rotation period | 8.47 h |
| Absolute brightness | 14.1 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Matteo Santangelo |
| Date of discovery | September 11, 1999 |
| Another name | 1999 RJ 44 , 1998 MO |
| 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. | |
(36061) Haldane is an asteroid of the main outer belt discovered on September 11, 1999 by the Italian astronomer Matteo Santangelo at the Osservatorio Astronomico di Monte Agliale ( IAU code 159) in Borgo a Mozzano .
The celestial body was named on April 13, 2006 after the British theoretical biologist and geneticist J. BS Haldane (1892–1964), who was one of the founders of population genetics in the 1920s .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Haldane: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (36061) Haldane in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (36061) Haldane in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).