(5194) Bottger
Asteroid (5194) Boettger |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Middle main belt |
Major semi-axis | 2.7062 AU |
eccentricity | 0.0448 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.5850 AU - 2.8274 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.3091 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 140.7584 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 100.0477 ° |
Sidereal period | 4.45 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 18.10 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 14.3 mag |
history | |
Explorer |
Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld , Tom Gehrels |
Date of discovery | September 24, 1960 |
Another name | 4641 PL , 1982 QW, 1982 QZ, 1989 AT 3 |
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. |
(5194) Böttger is an asteroid of the central main belt that was discovered on September 24, 1960 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld . The discovery came about as part of the Palomar-Leiden survey , during which Tom Gehrels examined field plates recorded at the University of Leiden with the 120 cm Oschin Schmidt telescope of the Palomar observatory .
The asteroid was named after the German naturalist and alchemist Johann Friedrich Böttger (1682–1719), who was best known for producing the first European porcelain , which he succeeded in 1708 with EW von Tschirnhaus .
See also
Web links
- (5194) Böttger in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- Asteroid Boettger 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 asteroid Böttger according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)