(43790) Ferdinand brown

Asteroid (43790) Ferdinand brown
Properties of the orbit ( animation ) Epoch: July 31, 2016 ( JD 2,457,600.5)
Orbit type	Main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis	2.2711 AU
eccentricity	0.1271
Perihelion - aphelion	1.9824 AU - 2.5598 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane	6.0680 °
Length of the ascending node	17.7618 °
Argument of the periapsis	341.5154 °
Sidereal period	3.42 a
Mean orbital velocity	19.76 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness	15.5 mag
history
Explorer	Freimut Börngen Lutz D. Schmadel
Date of discovery	October 12, 1990
Another name	1990 TY ₃ , 2000 QK ₃₁
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(43790) Ferdinandbraun is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on October 12, 1990 by the German astronomers Freimut Börngen and Lutz D. Schmadel at the Thuringian State Observatory Tautenburg ( IAU code 033) in the Tautenburger Forest in Thuringia .

The asteroid was on 20 November 2002 after the German physicist and electrical engineer Ferdinand Braun named (1850-1918), of his awareness of him often Braun tube called CRT owes. In 1909 he and Guglielmo Marconi received the Nobel Prize in Physics for their contribution to the development of wireless telegraphy .

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