(6175) Cori
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Asteroid (6175) Cori |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main outer belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Themis family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1886 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2083 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.5245 AU - 3.8527 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 0.4030 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 35.0789 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 8.0885 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.69 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.67 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 11.4 km |
| Albedo | 0.1573 (± 0.049) |
| Absolute brightness | 12.6 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Antonin Mrkos |
| Date of discovery | 4th December 1983 |
| Another name | 1983 XW , 1954 WF, 1988 PY 1 , 1988 UX |
| 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. | |
(6175) Cori is an asteroid of the outer main belt , which was discovered on December 4, 1983 by the Czech astronomer Antonín Mrkos at the Kle Observ Observatory ( IAU code 046) near Český Krumlov . Unconfirmed sightings of the asteroid had already occurred in November 1954 under the provisional designation 1954 WF at the Goethe Link Observatory in Indiana .
The mean diameter of the asteroid was determined to be 11.4 km. It belongs to the Themis family, a group of asteroids named after (24) Themis . According to the SMASS classification ( Small Main-Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey ), a spectroscopic investigation by Gianluca Masi , Sergio Foglia and Richard P. Binzel at (6175) Cori assumed a dark surface, so it could, roughly speaking, be trade a C asteroid .
(6175) Cori is named after the biochemist couple Gerty (1896–1957) and Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896–1984), who were born in Prague and received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1947 , “for their discovery of the course of catalytic glycogen - Metabolism ”. The Argentine physiologist Bernardo Alberto Houssay , after whom the asteroid of the outer main belt (2550) Houssay was named in 1986, was also awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1947 . (6175) Cori was named at the suggestion of the Czech astronomer Jana Tichá by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) on May 23, 2000. In the first laudation on May 23, the two were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry , which, however, in the next but one IAU- Publication on July 26th was corrected. After Gerty Cori, a lunar crater of the southern lunar hemisphere ( lunar crater Cori ) and 1979 a Venus crater of the northern hemisphere ( Venus crater Cori ) were named.
Web links
- Photo of the asteroid (English)
- (6175) Cori in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (6175) Cori in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Observations by (6175) Cori on minorplanetcenter.net (English)
- ↑ Family affiliation of (6175) Cori in the AstDyS-2 database (English)
- ^ Gianluca Masi, Sergio Foglia, Richard P. Binzel: Search for Unusual Spectroscopic Candidates Among 40313 minor planets from the 3rd Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Moving Object Catalog . (English)
- ↑ subdivision of asteroids to S-types, C-types and V-types (English)
- ↑ Entry of the asteroid on the website of the Kleť Observatory (English)
- ^ Lunar crater Cori in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS (English)
- ↑ Venus Crater Cori in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS (English)