(4546) Franck
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Asteroid (4546) Franck |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Vesta family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3560 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0617 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.2106 AU - 2.5015 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 6.1078 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.62 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.40 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.6 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | March 2, 1990 |
| Another name | 1990 EW 2 , 1972 GE 1 , 1977 RS 2 , 1981 RH 1 , 1981 WM 6 , 1988 RR 8 |
| 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. | |
(4546) Franck is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 2 March 1990 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( IAU code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile was discovered.
The asteroid was named after the Franco-Belgian organist and composer César Franck (1822–1890), who was appointed titular organist of the Ste-Clotilde Church in Paris in 1859 and who in 1871 founded the Société Nationale de Musique with others .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Franck: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (4546) Franck in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (4546) Franck in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).