(47494) Gerhardangl
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Asteroid (47494) Gerhardangl |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.5856 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1436 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.2144 AU - 2.9568 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 1.3857 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.16 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 5 km |
| Absolute brightness | 15.6 likes |
| history | |
| Explorer | Stefano Sposetti |
| Date of discovery | January 4, 2000 |
| Another name | 2000 AH 42 , 1992 ES 12 |
| 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. | |
(47494) Gerhardangl is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on January 4, 2000 by the Swiss amateur astronomer Stefano Sposetti at the Osservatorio Astronomico di Gnosca ( IAU code 143) in Gnosca in the canton of Ticino .
On April 9, 2009, the asteroid was named after Gerhard Dangl (* 1959), an Austrian amateur astronomer, at the suggestion of the discoverer . Dangl lives in the Lower Austrian Waldviertel and mainly deals with occultations of the moon and asteroids.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Gerhardangl: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (47494) Gerhardangl in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (47494) Gerhardangl in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).