(4230) van den Bergh
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Asteroid (4230) van den Bergh |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Schubart family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.9548 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1345 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 3.4229 AU - 4.4867 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.096 ° |
| Sidereal period | 7,865 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 14.98 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 37.75 km |
| Albedo | 0.026 |
| Absolute brightness | 11,564 likes |
| history | |
| Explorer |
CJ van Houten , T. Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | 19th September 1973 |
| Another name | 1973 ST 1 , 1978 JB 2 , 1979 OD |
| 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. | |
(4230) van den Bergh is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on September 19, 1973 by the research team Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Tom Gehrels at Mount Palomar .
The asteroid was named on May 28, 1991 after the Dutch-Canadian astronomer Sidney van den Bergh .