(9329) Nikolaimedtner

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Asteroid
(9329) Nikolaimedtner
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  December 9, 2014 ( JD 2,457,000.5)
Orbit type Main belt asteroid
Asteroid family Vesta family
Major semi-axis 2.2893  AU
eccentricity 0.0906
Perihelion - aphelion 2.0820 AU - 2.4966 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 5.9808 °
Length of the ascending node 243.8223 °
Argument of the periapsis 21.3314 °
Sidereal period 3.46 a
Mean orbital velocity 19.68 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness 13.9 likes
history
Explorer Eric Walter Elst
Date of discovery March 2, 1990
Another name 1990 EO , 1991 PG 12
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.

(9329) Nikolaimedtner is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 2 March 1990 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory in Chile ( IAU code was discovered 809).

The asteroid belongs to the Vesta family , a large group of asteroids named after (4) Vesta , the second largest asteroid and third largest celestial body in the main belt.

(9329) Nikolaimedtner was named on March 18, 2003 after the Russian composer and pianist Nikolai Karlowitsch Medtner (1880–1951) who, together with Alexander Konstantinowitsch Glasunow , Paul Juon and Sergei Iwanowitsch Taneyev, stamped the label of a "Russian Brahms" on because they combined elements of the national Russian school with Western European influences.

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Individual evidence

  1. The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)