(43806) Augustepiccard
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Asteroid (43806) Augustepiccard |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4540 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1800 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0122 AU - 2.8959 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.7411 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 261.8970 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 149.8463 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.84 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.01 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 15.0 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Freimut Börngen Lutz D. Schmadel |
| Date of discovery | September 13, 1991 |
| Another name | 1991 RG 7 , 1993 FK 30 |
| 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. | |
(43806) Augustepiccard is an asteroid of the main belt , which was discovered on September 13, 1991 by the German astronomers Freimut Börngen and Lutz D. Schmadel at the Thuringian State Observatory Tautenburg ( IAU code 033) in the Tautenburg Forest in Thuringia .
The asteroid was named on November 20, 2002 after the Swiss scientist, physicist ( experimental physics ) and inventor Auguste Piccard (1884–1962), who explored both the stratosphere and the deep sea and set various records. (In 1932 the world record in altitude of 16,940 meters ( geometric measurement ), in 1963 a diving depth of 3,150 meters with the Bathyscaphe Trieste he developed )
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Augustepiccard: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (43806) Augustepiccard in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (43806) Augustepiccard in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).