(9615) Hemerijckx
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Asteroid (9615) Hemerijckx |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.2370 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1446 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.9136 AU - 2.5605 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.7948 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 184.3940 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 198.3366 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.35 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.91 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.9 likes |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | January 23, 1993 |
| Another name | 1993 BX 13 , 1951 PT, 1978 RL 6 , 1978 SY 4 , 1978 VD 12 |
| 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. | |
(9615) Hemerijckx is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 23 January 1993 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 was named on January 6, 2003 after the Belgian doctor Frans Hemerijckx (1902–1969), who from 1929 onwards devoted himself to combating leprosy in the Belgian Congo and India .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Hemerijckx: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Hemerijckx in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9615) Hemerijckx in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).