(9614) Cuvier
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Asteroid (9614) Cuvier |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.2896 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0990 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0629 AU - 2.5164 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.1284 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 122.5177 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 79.8123 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.46 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.68 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.3 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | January 27, 1993 |
| Another name | 1993 BQ 4 , 1976 GV 6 , 1997 JO 17 |
| 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. | |
(9614) Cuvier is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 27 January 1993 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the observatory Caussols ( IAU code 010) in the south of France was discovered.
The asteroid was named on January 6, 2003 after the French naturalist Georges Cuvier (1769-1832), who is considered the scientific founder of paleontology and made comparative anatomy a research discipline, thereby providing evidence that living beings (and entire species) are becoming extinct can.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Cuvier: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Cuvier in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9614) Cuvier in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).