(3887) Gerstner
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Asteroid (3887) Gerstner |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Eos family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.9940 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1090 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6678 AU - 3.3202 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 9.9276 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.18 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.20 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 12.7 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Antonin Mrkos |
| Date of discovery | August 22, 1985 |
| Another name | 1985 QX, 1975 TW 2 , 1980 TM 6 |
| 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. | |
(3887) Gerstner is an asteroid of the main belt , of August 22, 1985 by the Czech astronomers Antonin Mrkos on kleť observatory ( IAU code 046) in Bohemia was discovered.
The asteroid was named after the Bohemian physicist and mathematician Franz Josef von Gerstner (1756-1832), who initially worked as an astronomer at the Vienna observatory and from 1784 at the Prague observatory before turning to mathematics from 1787.
The asteroid also honors his son Franz Anton von Gerstner (1796–1840), who in 1824 implemented the Budweis - Linz railway connection designed by his father from 1807 in the form of the Budweis – Linz horse-drawn railway .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Gerstner: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (3887) Gerstner in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (3887) Gerstner in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).