(44613) Rudolf
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Asteroid (44613) Rudolf |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Inner main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4211 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0249 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.3607 AU - 2.4814 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 7.8084 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 220.6113 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 79.0281 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.77 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.14 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 15.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Petr Pravec , Peter Kušnirák |
| Date of discovery | September 8, 1999 |
| Another name | 1999 RU 31 , 2001 BS 48 |
| 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. | |
(44613) Rudolf is an asteroid of the main inner belt discovered on September 8, 1999 by the Czech astronomer Petr Pravec and the Slovak astronomer Peter Kušnirák at the Ondřejov observatory ( IAU code 557) in Ondřejov u Prahy .
The asteroid was named after Rudolf II on November 10, 2003 , Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire from 1576 to 1612, King of Bohemia from 1576 to 1612, and King of Hungary and Archduke of Austria from 1576 to 1611 . Rudolf II made Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler his court astronomers. The moon groove Rima Rudolf on the earth's moon , on the other hand, was named after the German first name Rudolf in 1976 .
Web links
- (44613) Rudolf in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (44613) Rudolf in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- Discovery Circumstances of (44613) Rudolf according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ The Rima Rudolf in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS