(16441) Kirchner

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Asteroid
(16441) Kirchner
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  July 31, 2016 ( JD 2,457,600.5)
Orbit type Main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis 2.7226  AU
eccentricity 0.0359
Perihelion - aphelion 2.6248 AU - 2.8205 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 8.9263 °
Length of the ascending node 330.713 °
Argument of the periapsis 149.8243 °
Sidereal period 4.49 a
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness 13.7 mag
history
Explorer Freimut Börngen
Date of discovery March 7, 1989
Another name 1989 EF 6 , 1998 BK 36
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(16441) Kirchner is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on March 7, 1989 by the astronomer Freimut Börngen at the Thuringian state observatory in Tautenburg ( IAU code 33).

The asteroid was named on November 11, 2000 after the painter and graphic artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938), a founding member of the artist group Brücke and representative of Expressionism , who also took photographs and created wooden sculptures.

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