(9638) fox
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Asteroid (9638) fox |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4021 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1630 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0106 AU - 2.79378 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 0.7009 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 147.5834 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 82.9515 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.72 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.21 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.6 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | August 10, 1994 |
| Another name | 1994 PO 7 , 1995 XM |
| 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. | |
(9638) Fuchs is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 10 August 1994 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 November 10, 1998 after the German doctor and botanist Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566), who became famous for his herbal books , the first of which was published in 1542.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Fuchs: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Fuchs in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9638) Fuchs in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).