(7907) Erasmus
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Asteroid (7907) Erasmus |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.7843 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0198 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.7293 AU - 2.8393 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.0683 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 339.4693 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 321.9168 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.65 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.85 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 | 4047 PL , 1978 NL 6 , 1991 GR 8 |
| 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. | |
(7907) Erasmus is an asteroid of the main belt , which was discovered on September 24, 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) .
The asteroid was on 5 October 1998 by the Dutch theologian , philosopher , philologist and author of numerous books Erasmus named (~ 1467-1536), of a major European scholar of humanism and educators of the future Emperor Charles V was.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Erasmus: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Erasmus in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (7907) Erasmus in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).