(65685) Behring

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Asteroid
(65685) Behring
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  4th November 2013 ( JD 2,456,600.5)
Orbit type Middle main belt asteroid
Asteroid family Zdenekhorsky family
Major semi-axis 2.7221  AU
eccentricity 0.1094
Perihelion - aphelion 2.4242 AU - 3.0200 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 4.0234 °
Length of the ascending node 308.9762 °
Argument of the periapsis 106.1591 °
Sidereal period 4.49 a
Mean orbital velocity 18.05 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness 15.5 mag
history
Explorer Freimut Börngen , Lutz D. Schmadel
Date of discovery October 10, 1990
Another name 1990 TY 1 , 1999 TO 150
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.

(65685) Behring is an asteroid of the middle main belt that was discovered by the German astronomers Freimut Börngen and Lutz D. Schmadel on October 10, 1990 at the Tautenburg Observatory ( IAU code 033) in the Thuringian Tautenburg Forest .

According to the AstDyS-2 database, the asteroid belongs to the Zdenekhorsky family, a group of asteroids named after (3827) Zdeněkhorský . According to the SMASS classification ( Small Main-Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey ), a spectroscopic study by Gianluca Masi , Sergio Foglia and Richard P. Binzel at (65685) Behring assumed a dark surface, so it could, roughly speaking, be trade a C asteroid .

The timeless (not osculating ) orbital elements of (65685) Behring are almost identical to those of two potentially larger asteroids, when speaking of the absolute brightness emanating from 15.2 and 15.4, compared to 15.5: (111118) 2001 VZ 87 and (152343) 2005 UW 73 .

The track from (65685) Behring was secured in 2003 so that numbering could be assigned. At the suggestion of Freimut Börngen, the asteroid was named after the German bacteriologist and serologist Emil von Behring , the first recipient of the Nobel Prize for Medicine (1901). The naming of the asteroid became generally valid by publication on January 7, 2004. A lunar crater in the southern lunar hemisphere was named after Emil von Behring as early as 1979 : lunar crater "von Behring" .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Family affiliation of (65685) Behring in the AstDyS-2 database (English)
  2. ^ 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)
  3. subdivision of asteroids to S-types, C-types and V-types (English)
  4. The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)
  5. Small planets discovered on Tautenburger Platten on the website of Freimut Börngen
  6. The lunar crater of "Behring" in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS (English)