(7908) Zwingli
Asteroid (7908) Zwingli |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 2.3501 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1265 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0528 AU - 2.6473 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.6207 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 57.6293 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 278.3672 ° |
Sidereal period | 3.60 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 19.43 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Medium diameter | 3.973 ± 0.207 km |
Albedo | 0.281 ± 0.018 |
Absolute brightness | 14.2 mag |
history | |
Explorer |
Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld , Tom Gehrels |
Date of discovery | March 26, 1971 |
Another name | 4192 T-1 , 1983 TU 2 , 1989 EH 7 , 1990 SW 16 |
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. |
(7908) Zwingli is an asteroid located in the main belt , which was discovered on March 26, 1971 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 named on December 8, 1998 after the Swiss theologian and reformer Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531), who translated the Bible into the federal chancellery language between 1524 and 1529 and laid the foundation for the Reformed Church.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Zwingli: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Zwingli in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (7908) Zwingli in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).