(9079) Gesner
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Asteroid (9079) Gesner |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Eos family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.9906 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0749 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.7667 AU - 3.2144 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 10.4407 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 155.4165 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 137.3780 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.17 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.21 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 8.795 ± 0.143 km |
| Albedo | 0.144 + 0.019 |
| Absolute brightness | 13.2 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | August 10, 1994 |
| Another name | 1994 PC 34 , 1993 JM |
| 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. | |
(9079) Gesner is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 10 August 1994 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( IAU code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile was discovered.
The asteroid on January 6, 2003 was named after the Swiss doctor and naturalist Conrad Gessner (1516-1565), the co-founder of modern zoology and creator of the encyclopedic works Historia animalium and Historia Plantarum .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Gesner: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Gesner in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9079) Gesner in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).