(16564) Coriolis Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 30 January 1992 by E. W. Elst at La Silla.
Gaspard Gustave de Coriolis (1792–1843) was a French mathematician and physicist who showed that the laws of motion could be used in a rotating frame by adding an extra force, the Coriolis acceleration, to the equations of motion (Sur les équations du mouvement relatif des systèmes de corps, 1835).Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 6, #3, 5), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Coriolis is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Coriolis is 2.80 au from the Sun and 1.83 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 16564 |
| Provisional designation | 1992 BK2 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 6.44 km (#8,328 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.204 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.66 |
| Orbital period | 5.14 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.98 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.74 – 3.22 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0810 |
| Inclination | 10.3° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.73 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Gaspard
All asteroids named after someone called Gaspard
Also discovered on 30 January 1992
- (6051) Anaximenes
- (7187) Isobe
- (7947) Toland
- (10101) Fourier
- (13975) Beatrixpotter
- (15752) Eluard
- (16563) Ob
- (20024) Mayremartinez
- (21087) Petsimpallas
- (21088) Chelyabinsk
- (29220) Xavierbaptista
More named asteroids discovered by E. W. Elst
- (3631) Sigyn
- (3784) Chopin
- (3870) Mayre
- (3903) Kliment Ohridski
- (3910) Liszt
- (3912) Troja
- (3918) Brel
- (4038) Kristina
- (4226) Damiaan
- (4342) Freud
- (4344) Buxtehude
- (4345) Rachmaninoff
← (16563) Ob · (16578) Essjayess →