(8861) Jenskandler
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Asteroid (8861) Jenskandler |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.6025 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2040 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0715 AU - 3.1335 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 10.9582 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 217.7795 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 315.1831 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.20 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.46 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 21.86 km |
| Albedo | 0.0147 |
| Absolute brightness | 12.9 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Freimut Börngen Lutz D. Schmadel |
| Date of discovery | 3rd October 1991 |
| Another name | 1991 TF 7 , 1977 KS, 1994 LB 1 |
| 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. | |
(8861) Jenskandler is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on October 3, 1991 by the German astronomers Freimut Börngen and Lutz D. Schmadel at the Thuringian State Observatory Tautenburg ( IAU code 033) near the village of Tautenburg in Thuringia .
The asteroid was named on December 8, 1998 after the German amateur astronomer Jens Kandler (* 1973), who has been observing the sky in Drebach at the local observatory since he was 14 years old .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Jenskandler: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Jenskandler in the Small-Body Database of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (8861) Jenskandler in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).