(23473) Voss

Asteroid (23473) Voss
Properties of the orbit ( animation ) Epoch: December 9, 2014 ( JD 2,457,000.5)
Orbit type	Main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis	2.6809 AU
eccentricity	0.2018
Perihelion - aphelion	2.1400 AU - 3.2218 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane	2.9141 °
Length of the ascending node	252.0484 °
Argument of the periapsis	172.9524 °
Sidereal period	4.39 a
Mean orbital velocity	18.17 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness	14.6 mag
history
Explorer	Freimut Börngen Lutz D. Schmadel
Date of discovery	October 11, 1990
Another name	1990 TD ₁₂ , 1995 YF ₁₀
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(23473) Voss is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on October 11, 1990 by the German astronomers Freimut Börngen and Lutz D. Schmadel at the Thuringian State Observatory Tautenburg ( IAU code 033) in Thuringia .

The asteroid was named on July 5, 2001 after the German philologist and poet Johann Heinrich Voss (1751-1826), who translated Homer's epics Iliad and Odyssey as well as the works of Virgil , Ovid , Horace , Tibullus , Properz and other classical poets. From 1818 to 1829 he published a translation of William Shakespeare's dramas in nine volumes , which he had made with the help of his sons Heinrich and Abraham .

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