(7207) Hammurabi
Asteroid (7207) Hammurabi |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 2.5779 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1865 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0971 AU - 3.0586 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 14.1262 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 355.8704 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 92.8655 ° |
Sidereal period | 4.14 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 18.55 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 14.1 mag |
history | |
Explorer |
Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld , Tom Gehrels |
Date of discovery | September 24, 1960 |
Another name | 2133 PL , 1995 ET |
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(7207) Hammurabi is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on September 24, 1960 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld . The discovery came about as part of the Palomar-Leiden survey , during which Tom Gehrels examined field plates recorded at the University of Leiden with the 120 cm Oschin Schmidt telescope of the Palomar observatory .
The asteroid was named after Hammurapi I , who lived from 1792 until his death in 1750 BC. Was the 6th king of the first dynasty of Babylonia and was particularly famous for the oldest completely preserved collection of laws, the Codex Hammurapi named after him .
See also
Web links
- (7207) Hammurabi in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- Asteroid Hammurabi in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)
- Asteroid Hammurabi: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA