(7623) Stamitz
Asteroid (7623) Stamitz |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Asteroid family | Themis family |
Major semi-axis | 3.1868 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1167 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.8148 AU - 3.5587 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.3718 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 96.2515 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 94.6156 ° |
Sidereal period | 5.69 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 16.70 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 12.9 mag |
history | |
Explorer |
Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld , Tom Gehrels |
Date of discovery | October 17, 1960 |
Another name | 9508 PL , 1986 ED 1 , 1992 JR 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. |
(7623) Stamitz is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on October 17, 1960 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld . The discovery was made 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 ( IAU code 675) .
It was named on October 16, 1997 after the Bohemian composer and violinist Johann Stamitz (1717–1757), who led the court orchestra of Elector Karl Theodor von der Pfalz from 1743 and who is considered the founder of the famous Mannheim School .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Stamitz: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Stamitz in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (7623) Stamitz in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).