5148 Giordano
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| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels |
| Discovery site | Palomar Observatory |
| Discovery date | October 17, 1960 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 5148 |
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Named after
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Giordano Bruno |
| 5557 P-L | |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch May 14, 2008 | |
| Aphelion | 3.5506946 |
| Perihelion | 2.6990192 |
| Eccentricity | 0.1362743 |
| 2017.6397762 | |
| 18.27002 | |
| Inclination | 1.13403 |
| 347.05389 | |
| 226.70781 | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 13.5 | |
5148 Giordano (5557 P-L) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 17, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.
The asteroid was subsequently designated 5148, as a permutation of Bruno's birth year (1548). [1]
Another asteroid related (with his name) to Giordano Bruno is 13223 Cenaceneri named after work of him La Cena delle Ceneri ("The Dinner of the Ashes") in which, for the first time in Western philosophical thought, there is discussion of the infinity of worlds in the universe.[2] He published it in 1584.
See also
References
- ↑ Also in 1960, the Dutch astronomers Cornelius Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld discovered an asteroid which they subsequently designated 5148, a permutation of Bruno's birth year (Saiber 2005: 43-45). Frances Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1964, p450; see also: Adam Frank, The Constant Fire: Beyond the Science vs. Religion Debate, University of California Press, 2009, p24
- ↑ http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=13223+Cenaceneri
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