(8634) Neubauer
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Asteroid (8634) Neubauer |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.6480 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1821 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.1659 AU - 3.1302 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 14.1357 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 36.2837 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 127.9364 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.31 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.29 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Rotation period | 5.0959 h |
| Absolute brightness | 13.3 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Edward LG Bowell |
| Date of discovery | April 5th 1981 |
| Another name | 1981 GG , 1979 WE 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. | |
(8634) Neubauer is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 5 April 1981 by the American astronomer Edward LG Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station ( IAU code 688) of the Lowell Observatory in Coconino County , Arizona was discovered.
The asteroid was named on May 23, 2000 after the German geophysicist Fritz M. Neubauer (* 1940), whose main research area is geomagnetism and the construction of magnetometers for space missions.
See also
Web links
- (8634) Neubauer in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (8634) Neubauer 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 (8634) Neubauer according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)