(5204) Herakleitos
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Asteroid (5204) Herakleitos |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Themis family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1375 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1408 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6959 AU - 3.5791 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 0.8667 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 175.2256 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.56 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.79 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 12.8 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | February 11, 1988 |
| Another name | 1988 CN 2 , 1975 VE 4 |
| 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. | |
(5204) Heraclitus is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 11 February 1988 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( observatory code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile was discovered.
The asteroid is named after the pre-Socratic philosopher Heraklit (520-460 BC) from Ephesus , who represented an insight into the world order that differed from all conventional ways of thinking and to whom the popular short formula panta rhei (“everything flows”) was later assigned.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Herakleitos: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Herakleitos in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (5204) Herakleitos in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).