(39540) Borchert
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Asteroid (39540) Borchert |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4746 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1271 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.1600 AU - 2.7892 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.2247 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 55.1663 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 172.7963 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.89 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.93 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 15.9 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Freimut Börngen |
| Date of discovery | April 11, 1991 |
| Another name | 1991 GF 11 , 1991 HU 2 , 1999 JD 119 |
| 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. | |
(39540) Borchert is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on April 11, 1991 by the German astronomer Freimut Börngen at the Thuringian State Observatory Tautenburg ( IAU code 033) in Thuringia .
The asteroid was named on November 20, 2002 after the German writer Wolfgang Borchert (1921–1947), who was one of the best-known authors of so-called rubble literature after the Second World War .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Borchert: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (39540) Borchert in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (39540) Borchert in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).