(9764) Morgenstern
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Asteroid (9764) morning star |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Inner main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3196 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1890 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.8813 AU - 2.7579 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 7.2112 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 300.6469 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 160.0688 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | 17th November 2016 |
| Sidereal period | 3.53 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.55 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 3.393 km (± 0.070) |
| Albedo | 0.352 (± 0.070) |
| Absolute brightness | 14.3 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Freimut Börngen |
| Date of discovery | October 30, 1991 |
| Another name | 1991 RA 5 , 1993 FD 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. | |
(9764) Morgenstern is an asteroid of the inner main belt , which was discovered on October 30, 1991 by the German astronomer Freimut Börngen at the Thuringian State Observatory Tautenburg ( IAU code 033) in the Tautenburg Forest in Thuringia .
The heavenly body was named on December 8, 1998 after the German poet , writer and translator Christian Morgenstern (1871–1914), who achieved particular fame through his comic poetry .
See also
Web links
- (9764) Morgenstern in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (9764) Morgenstern in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)
- Discovery Circumstances of (9764) Morgenstern according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)