(8053) Kleist
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Asteroid (8053) Kleist |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Inner main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Hertha family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3858 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1607 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0024 AU - 2.7693 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.7693 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 322.8284 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 262.5208 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.69 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.29 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.7 mag |
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| Explorer |
Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld , Tom Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | September 25, 1960 |
| Another name | 4082 PL , 1992 EV, 1993 RP 9 |
| 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. | |
(8053) Kleist is an asteroid of the main inner belt that was discovered on September 25, 1960 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld . The discovery came about 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 .
The asteroid belongs to the Nysa group, a group of asteroids named after (44) Nysa (also called the Hertha family, after (135) Hertha ).
(8053) Kleist was named on April 2, 1999 after the playwright , storyteller , poet and publicist Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811). His works Das Käthchen von Heilbronn , Prince Friedrich von Homburg or the Battle of Fehrbellin and The Broken Jug were particularly highlighted in the dedication to the naming .
See also
Web links
- (8053) Kleist in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (8053) Kleist in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)
- Discovery Circumstances by (8053) Kleist according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family affiliation of (8053) Kleist in the AstDyS-2 database (English)