(8672) Morse
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Asteroid (8672) Morse |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Hertha family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4547 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1626 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0556 AU - 2.8538 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.3991 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 136.6086 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 147.2741 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.85 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.00 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.5 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | August 6, 1991 |
| Another name | 1991 PW 16 , 1976 UD 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. | |
(8672) Morse is an asteroid of the main belt , the August 6, 1991 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( observatory code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile was discovered.
The asteroid belongs to the Nysa group, a group of asteroids named after (44) Nysa, which is also known as the Hertha family (after (135) Hertha ).
(8672) Morse was named on November 20, 2002 after the American inventor and professor of painting, sculpture and drawing, Samuel FB Morse (1791–1872), who developed the first usable writing telegraph (Morse machine) and together with his colleague Alfred Vail of the early Morse code, later named after him, created the practical requirements for reliable electrical telegraphy .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family affiliation of (8672) Morse in the AstDyS-2 database (English)
Web links
- Asteroid Morse: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Morse in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (8672) Morse in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).