(48456) Wilhelmwien
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Asteroid (48456) Wilhelmwien |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.0459 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0835 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.7916 AU - 3.3003 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 19.4844 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 350.7587 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 215.6431 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | 2nd January 2016 |
| Sidereal period | 5.32 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.07 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 8.722 ± 0.173 km |
| Albedo | 0.070 ± 0.006 |
| Absolute brightness | 14.1 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Freimut Börngen Lutz D. Schmadel |
| Date of discovery | September 12, 1991 |
| Another name | 1991 RG 3 , 1996 RV 11 |
| 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. | |
(48456) Wilhelmwien is an asteroid of the main belt which was discovered by the German astronomers Freimut Börngen and Lutz D. Schmadel on September 12, 1991 at the Thuringian State Observatory Tautenburg ( IAU code 033).
The celestial body was named after the German physicist Wilhelm Wien (1864–1928), who researched the laws of thermal radiation and received the Nobel Prize in Physics for it in 1911 . The asteroid was named on March 18, 2003.
See also
Web links
- (48456) Wilhelmwien in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (48456) Wilhelmwien in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)
- Discovery Circumstances of (48456) Wilhelmwien according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)