(8935) Beccaria
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Asteroid (8935) Beccaria |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.2298 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1501 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.8952 AU - 2.5645 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.1136 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 177.6396 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 218.0191 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.33 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.94 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Piero Sicoli Marco Cavagna |
| Date of discovery | January 11, 1997 |
| Another name | 1997 AV 13 , 1969 TG 6 , 1987 BZ 2 , 1991 GD 13 , 4863 T-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. | |
(8935) Beccaria is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on January 11, 1997 by the Italian amateur astronomers Piero Sicoli and Marco Cavagna at the Osservatorio Astronomico Sormano ( observatory code 587) north of Milan near the village of Sormano in the province of Como .
The asteroid was named on May 23, 2000 after Cesare Beccaria (1738–1794), an Italian legal philosopher and criminal law reformer in the Age of Enlightenment , who is also considered the founder of the "Classical School of Criminology ".
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Beccaria: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Beccaria in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (8935) Beccaria in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).