(4804) Pasteur
Asteroid (4804) Pasteur |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 2.6912 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1182 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.3731 AU - 3.0093 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 8.6302 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 103.5581 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 271.3067 ° |
Sidereal period | 4.41 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 18.15 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Medium diameter | approx. 15 km |
Rotation period | 13.69 h |
Absolute brightness | 12.0 mag |
Spectral class | SMASS: C |
history | |
Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
Date of discovery | 2nd December 1989 |
Another name | 1989 XC 1 , 1962 QB, 1971 QJ 1 |
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. |
(4804) Pasteur is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 2 December 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 on November 21, 1991 after the French scientist and co-founder of microbiology Louis Pasteur (1822–1895).
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Pasteur: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Pasteur in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (4804) Pasteur in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).