(9677) Gowlandhopkins
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Asteroid (9677) Gowlandhopkins |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.0813 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2609 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.2774 AU - 3.8853 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 8.5754 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 189.0927 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 130.1874 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.41 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.97 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.7 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | CJ and I. van Houten-Groeneveld , T. Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | September 24, 1960 |
| Another name | 2532 PL , 1987 QW 9 |
| 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. | |
(9677) Gowlandhopkins is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on September 24, 1960 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld . The discovery was made as part of the Palomar-Leiden survey , during which Tom Gehrels examined field plates recorded at the University of Leiden with the 120 cm Oschin Schmidt telescope of the Palomar observatory ( IAU code 675) .
The asteroid was named on November 11, 2000 after the English biochemist and physician Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861–1947), who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929 for his research into vitamins .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Gowlandhopkins: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Gowlandhopkins in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9677) Gowlandhopkins in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).