Sil'viya: pervyi troinoi asteroid
10.08.2005 13:37 | M. E. Prohorov/GAISh, Moskva
V avguste 2005 goda poyavilos' soobshenie, chto u asteroida Sil'viya (87 Sylvia) obnaruzhen vtoroi sputnik, t.e. eto pervyi otkrytyi troinoi asteroid v Solnechnoi sisteme.
Asteroid Sil'viya byl otkryt v 16 maya 1866 goda Polem Hergetom (Paul Herget) v Madrase (Indiya). Po povodu proishozhdeniya nazvaniya etoi maloi planety sushestvuyut nekotorye raznoglasiya: v spravochnike "Imena malyh planet" ("The Names of the Minor Planets", 1955) ono svyazyvaetsya s imenem zheny Kamilla Flammariona, znameniteishego populyarizatora astronomii vtoroi poloviny XIX i nachala XX vekov. Odnako v stat'e ob otkrytii asteroida (MNRAS, 1866) govoritsya, chto on nazvan v chest'