(16438) Knöfel
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Asteroid (16438) Knöfel |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Lydia family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.7351 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0533 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.5893 AU - 2.8808 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.5600 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.52 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.01 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.5 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Freimut Börngen |
| Date of discovery | January 11, 1989 |
| Another name | 1989 AU 6 |
| 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. | |
(16438) Knöfel is an asteroid of the main belt , which was discovered on January 11, 1989 by Freimut Börngen at the observatory of the Thuringian State Observatory Tautenburg .
The celestial body was named after the German meteorologist and amateur astronomer André Knöfel (* 1963), who works for the German Weather Service (DWD) at the Lindenberg Meteorological Observatory .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Knöfel: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (16438) Knöfel in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (16438) Knöfel in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).