(5005) Bowlers

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Asteroid
(5005) bowlers
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  December 9, 2014 ( JD 2,457,000.5)
Orbit type Main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis 2.2524  AU
eccentricity 0.1713
Perihelion - aphelion 1.8666 AU - 2.6382 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 1.3084 °
Length of the ascending node 320.6562 °
Argument of the periapsis 108.7612 °
Sidereal period 3.38 a
Mean orbital velocity 19.84 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness 14.6 mag
history
Explorer Seiji Ueda
Hiroshi Kaneda
Date of discovery October 16, 1988
Another name 1988 UB , 1978 VM 2 , 1986 AF 2
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(5005) bowlers is an asteroid of the main belt , of October 16, 1988 by the Japanese astronomers Seiji Ueda and Hiroshi Kaneda at the observatory in Kushiro ( IAU code was discovered 399).

The asteroid was named after the German Jesuit Ignatius Kegler (1680–1746) who worked as an imperial astronomer at the court in Beijing for 29 years .

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