(8054) Brentano
Asteroid (8054) Brentano |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 2.2379 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1256 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 1.9568 AU - 2.5190 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.8215 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 54.6371 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 334.3977 ° |
Sidereal period | 3.35 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 19.90 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Rotation period | 623.7705 h |
Absolute brightness | 14.2 mag |
history | |
Explorer |
Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld , Tom Gehrels |
Date of discovery | September 24, 1960 |
Another name | 4581 PL , 1987 VZ |
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(8054) Brentano 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 named on April 2, 1999 after the German writer Clemens Brentano (1778–1842), who was the main representative of the so-called Heidelberg Romanticism alongside Achim von Arnim , with whom he also published the folk song collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Brentano: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Brentano in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (8054) Brentano in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).