(207687) Senckenberg

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Asteroid
(207687) Senckenberg
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  4th September 2017 ( JD 2,458,000.5)
Orbit type Inner main belt
Major semi-axis 2,363  AU
eccentricity 0.216
Perihelion - aphelion 1.852 AU - 2.874 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 2.8 °
Length of the ascending node 210.2 °
Argument of the periapsis 141.2 °
Sidereal period 3.63 a
Mean orbital velocity 19.15 km / s
Physical Properties
Medium diameter ≈ 1.75 (± 0.25) km
Absolute brightness 16.6 mag
history
Explorer Erwin Schwab , Rainer Kling
Date of discovery September 12, 2007
Another name 2007 RZ 15 , 2005 AL 38
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(207687) Senckenberg is an asteroid of the inner main belt , which was discovered on September 12, 2007 by the German amateur astronomers Erwin Schwab and Rainer Kling at the 60 cm Cassegrain telescope of the Hans Ludwig Neumann observatory on the Kleine Feldberg ( IAU code B01) was discovered.

At the time of its discovery it was about 140 million kilometers away, at the closest point in its orbit, and had an apparent magnitude of only 17.9 to 18.6 mag. Erwin Schwab estimates the mean diameter of the asteroid to be 1.5 to 2 kilometers.

(207687) Senckenberg was named on May 17, 2011 after the Frankfurt physician , founder , natural scientist and botanist Johann Christian Senckenberg (1707–1772). The certificate of discovery was issued on August 18, 2013 by Dr. Senckenberg Foundation presented - as part of the 250th anniversary celebration of the foundation.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b asteroid Senckenberg. In: Erwin Schwab's homepage . Retrieved July 26, 2017 .
  2. ↑ (207687) Senckenberg at the IAU Minor Planet Center (English)