(9364) Clusius

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Asteroid
(9364) Clusius
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  March 23, 2018 ( JD 2,458,200.5)
Orbit type Main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis 2.7865  AU
eccentricity 0.0746
Perihelion - aphelion 2.5787 AU - 2.9942 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 2.7022 °
Length of the ascending node 13.1009 °
Argument of the periapsis 227.8906 °
Sidereal period 4.65 a
Mean orbital velocity 17.84 km / s
Physical Properties
Medium diameter 11.868 ± 0.092
Albedo 0.063 ± 0.010
Rotation period 8.9155 h
Absolute brightness 13.1 mag
history
Explorer Eric Walter Elst
Date of discovery April 23, 1992
Another name 1992 HZ 3 , 1989 UD 5
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(9364) Clusius is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 23 April 1992 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 on April 2, 1999 after the Dutch scholar, physician and botanist Carolus Clusius named (1526-1609), who in 1584 with nomenclator Stirpium Pannonicus the first Austrian botany written and made by his ministry Vienna into a center for floriculture . He was also known by the Latin name Carolus Clusius .

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