(635) Vundtia
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Asteroid (635) Vundtia |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Eos family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.141 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.077 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.9 AU - 3.382 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 11 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 183.1 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 222.6 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | September 26, 2009 |
| Sidereal period | 5 a 207 d |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.8 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | (94.415 ± 0.501) km |
| Albedo | 0.034 |
| Rotation period | 15 h 39 min |
| Absolute brightness | 9.0 mag |
| Spectral class | C. |
| history | |
| Explorer | K. Lohnert |
| Date of discovery | June 9, 1907 |
| Another name | 1907 ZS |
| 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. | |
(635) Vundtia is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on June 9, 1907 by the German astronomer Karl Julius Lohnert (1885–1944) in Heidelberg .
The asteroid was named after the German psychologist Wilhelm Wundt , with whom Karl Lohnert did his doctorate. Lohnert had to assert himself against the naming rules for asteroids, for which only female first names were allowed.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ letter Karl Lohnerts to Wilhelm Wundt of 14 March 1913 Wiss.Z, Karl-Marx-Univ. Leipzig, Ges.- u. Linguistic R., 28 Jg. (1979), H. 2., p. 242