(52293) Mommsen

Asteroid (52293) Mommsen
Properties of the orbit ( animation ) Epoch:  4th November 2013 ( JD 2,456,600.5)
Orbit type	Main outer belt asteroid
Major semi-axis	3.1779  AU
eccentricity	0.1970
Perihelion - aphelion	2.5519 AU - 3.8039 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane	10.8912 °
Length of the ascending node	24.2743 °
Argument of the periapsis	72.8068 °
Sidereal period	5.67 a
Mean orbital velocity	16.70 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness	13.8 mag
history
Explorer	Freimut Börngen , Lutz D. Schmadel
Date of discovery	October 12, 1990
Another name	1990 TQ 3 , 1998 FD 146
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.

(52293) Mommsen is an asteroid of the outer main belt , which was discovered by the German astronomers Freimut Börngen and Lutz D. Schmadel on October 12, 1990 at the Tautenburg Observatory ( IAU code 033) in the Thuringian Tautenburg Forest .

The orbit of the asteroid was secured in 2003 so that numbering could be assigned. (52293) Mommsen was named on May 1st of the same year at the suggestion of Freimut Börngen after the German historian Theodor Mommsen , who is considered one of the most important scholars of the 19th century. In 1902 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work, Roman History .

Web links

• (52293) Mommsen in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
• (52293) Mommsen 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 by (52293) Mommsen according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Minor planets discovered on Tautenburg plates . On the Freimut Börngen website