(7537) Solvay
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Asteroid (7537) Solvay |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1278 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1604 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6262 AU - 3.6294 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 1.8315 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.53 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.85 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 12.9 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | April 17, 1996 |
| Another name | 1996 HS 8 , 1976 SL 11 , 1982 YK 2 , 1987 SW 9 , 1989 AP 1 , 1992 OD 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. | |
(7537) Solvay is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 17 April 1996 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( IAU code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile was discovered.
The asteroid was named in honor of the Belgian chemist and entrepreneur Ernest Solvay (1838–1922).
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Solvay: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Solvay in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (7537) Solvay in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).