(9492) Veltman
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Asteroid (9492) Veltman |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.1842 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1350 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.8893 AU - 2.4791 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.9062 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 136.4113 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 252.9023 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.23 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 20.15 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.5 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
C. J. v. Houten , I. v. Houten-Groeneveld T. Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | March 25, 1971 |
| Another name | 2066 T-1 , 1979 XF 1 , 1985 RR 2 , 1990 BR 2 , 1992 YD 4 |
| 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. | |
(9492) Veltman is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 25 March 1971 by the Dutch astronomer Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory ( observatory code 675) in California was discovered.
The asteroid is named after the Dutch physicist Martinus JG Veltman (* 1931), who, together with his colleague Gerardus' t Hooft, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1999.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Veltman: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Veltman in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9492) Veltman in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).