(9483) Chagas
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Asteroid (9483) Chagas |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1045 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1725 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.5689 AU - 3.6401 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 8.7431 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 198.7606 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 182.6087 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.47 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.92 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
C. J. v. Houten , I. v. Houten-Groeneveld T. Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | September 24, 1960 |
| Another name | 4121 PL , 1982 UH 4 , 1993 TO 2 |
| 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. | |
(9483) Chagas is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on September 24, 1960 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld . The discovery was made as part of the Palomar-Leiden survey , during which Tom Gehrels examined field plates recorded at the University of Leiden with the 120 cm Oschin Schmidt telescope of the Palomar observatory ( IAU code 675) .
The asteroid was on April 2, 1999 after the Brazilian physician Carlos Chagas named (1879-1934), in 1909 for the first time named after him Chagas disease described and Chagas disease the pathogen after his mentor Oswaldo Cruz named.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Chagas: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Chagas in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9483) Chagas in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).