(9239) van Riebeeck
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Asteroid (9239) van Riebeeck |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3238 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2112 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.8330 AU - 2.8146 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 1.9515 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 160.1437 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 278.1535 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.54 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.53 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.5 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | May 3, 1997 |
| Another name | 1997 JP 15 , 1982 BM 2 , 1991 RR 34 , 1993 FN 59 |
| 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. | |
(9239) van Riebeeck is an asteroid of the main belt , which on May 3, 1997 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 was named on November 20, 2002 after the Dutch ship's doctor and businessman Jan van Riebeeck (1619–1677), who founded the Cape Colony in 1652 on behalf of the Dutch East India Company and was its first administrator.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid van Riebeeck: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid van Riebeeck in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9239) van Riebeeck in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).