(9496) Ockels
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Asteroid (9496) Ockels |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Koronis family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.9156 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0522 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.7634 AU - 3.0678 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.9502 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.98 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.43 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.6 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
C. J. v. Houten , I. v. Houten-Groeneveld T. Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | March 26, 1971 |
| Another name | 4260 T-1, 1990 BD 4 , 1991 FK 6 , 1991 HX 1 |
| 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. | |
(9496) Ockels is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 26 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 Wubbo Ockels (1946–2014), who was the first Dutch person to fly into space in 1985 as part of the D1 mission .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Ockels: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Ockels in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9496) Ockels in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).