(4798) Mercator
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Asteroid (4798) Mercator |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.1975 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1095 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.9569 AU - 2.4381 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.6588 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 93.6193 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 161.3290 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.26 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 20.09 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | September 26, 1989 |
| Another name | 1989 SU 1 , 1975 GH, 1985 JO 1 , 1986 WN 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. | |
(4798) Mercator is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 26 September 1989 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory ( IAU code was discovered 809).
The asteroid was named after the Flemish mathematician and cartographer Gerhard Mercator , who became known as the creator of globes and world maps ( Mercator projection ).
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Mercator: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Mercator in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (4798) Mercator in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).