(5195) Kaendler
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Asteroid (5195) Kaendler |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.1628 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1308 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.8800 AU - 2.4456 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.8928 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 210.8645 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 130.8253 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.18 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 20.25 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.9 likes |
| Spectral class | SMASSII : Sl |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld , Tom Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | March 26, 1971 |
| Another name | 3289 T-1 , 1978 NA 2 , 1988 VB 2 |
| 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. | |
(5195) Kaendler is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on March 26, 1971 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld . The discovery was made during the first Trojan survey in 1971, during which Tom Gehrels surveyed 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 sculptor Johann Joachim Kändler (1706–1775), who was one of the most important modellers at the Meissen porcelain factory .
See also
Web links
- (5195) Kaendler in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- Asteroid Kaendler 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 Kaendler according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)