(3859) Börngen
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Asteroid (3859) Börngen |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Themis family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1967 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1391 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.7520 AU - 3.6414 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.8846 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.72 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.65 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | approx. 21 km |
| Absolute brightness | 12.0 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Edward LG Bowell |
| Date of discovery | March 4th 1987 |
| Another name | 1987 EW, 1949 QF, 1952 BZ 1 , 1958 DW, 1978 SD 4 , 1982 JS 1 , 1985 YB 1 |
| 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. | |
(3859) Börngen is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 4 March 1987 by the American astronomer Edward LG Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station ( IAU code 688) of the Lowell Observatory in Coconino County was discovered.
The asteroid was named after the German astronomer and asteroid discoverer Freimut Börngen , who identified more than 500 asteroids at the Tautenburg State Observatory in Thuringia .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Börngen: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (3859) Börngen in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (3859) Börngen in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).