(9587) Bonpland

Asteroid (9587) Bonpland
Properties of the orbit ( animation ) Epoch:  December 9, 2014 ( JD 2,457,000.5)
Orbit type	Main belt asteroid
Asteroid family	Eunomia family
Major semi-axis	2.5769  AU
eccentricity	0.1645
Perihelion - aphelion	2.1530 AU - 3,0008 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane	13.8016 °
Length of the ascending node	194.6656 °
Argument of the periapsis	80.0877 °
Sidereal period	4.14 a
Mean orbital velocity	18.55 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness	13.4 mag
history
Explorer	Eric Walter Elst
Date of discovery	October 16, 1990
Another name	1990 UG 4 , 1988 BV 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.

(9587) Bonpland is an asteroid of the main belt , the October 16, 1990 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 belongs to the Eunomia family, a group named after (15) Eunomia , to which probably five percent of the asteroids in the main belt belong.

(9587) Bonpland was named on March 18, 2003 after the French naturalist and botanist Aimé Bonpland (1773-1858), who took part in Alexander von Humboldt's American expedition (1799-1804) and collected more than 60,000 plant specimens.

See also

• List of asteroids

Web links

• Asteroid Bonpland: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
• Asteroid Bonpland in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
• (9587) Bonpland in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).

Individual evidence

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