(7062) Meslier
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Asteroid (7062) Meslier |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Klumpkea family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.0901 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2041 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.4593 AU - 3.7209 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 17.2354 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 140.7221 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 116.4406 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.43 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.94 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.1 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | August 6, 1991 |
| Another name | 1991 PY 5 , 1980 PM 3 , 1991 RN 12 |
| 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. | |
(7062) Meslier is an asteroid of the main belt , the August 6, 1991 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( observatory code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile was discovered.
The asteroid is named after the French Catholic priest Jean Meslier (1664–1729), who wrote a radical criticism of the church and religion from a consistently materialistic , atheistic point of view during the early Enlightenment .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Meslier: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Meslier in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (7062) Meslier in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).