(7009) Hume
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Asteroid (7009) Hume |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt |
| Major semi-axis | 2.2350 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1754 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.8431 AU - 2.6270 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 0.8477 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 180.0485 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 195.6530 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.34 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.91 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.9 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | August 21, 1987 |
| Another name | 1987 QU 1 , 1982 BD 10 , 1994 UN 2 |
| 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. | |
(7009) Hume is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 21 August 1987 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( IAU code of 809) European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile was discovered.
The asteroid was named after the Scottish philosopher , economist and historian David Hume (1711–1776), who was one of the most important representatives of the Scottish Enlightenment and who belongs to the philosophical trend of empiricism and sensualism .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Hume: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Hume in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (7009) Hume in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).