(7536) Fahrenheit
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Asteroid (7536) Fahrenheit |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.8481 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1540 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.4095 AU - 3.2867 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 12.6198 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 303.8565 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 353.1121 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.81 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.65 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 24.77 km (± 2.2) |
| Albedo | 0.0549 |
| Absolute brightness | 12.1 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Yoshisada Shimizu , Takeshi Urata |
| Date of discovery | November 21, 1995 |
| Another name | 1995 WB 7 , 1978 EX 7 , 1991 AZ 3 , 1992 AG 3 |
| 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. | |
(7536) Fahrenheit is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 21 November 1995 by the Japanese astronomer Yoshisada Shimizu and Takeshi Urata at Nachi-Katsuura Observatory ( IAU code 905) in the Wakayama Prefecture was discovered.
The asteroid was named in honor of the German physicist and founder of thermometry Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736).
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Fahrenheit: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Fahrenheit in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (7536) Fahrenheit in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).