(6653) Feininger
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Asteroid (6653) Feininger |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Koronis family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.9106 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0849 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6635 AU - 3.1577 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 1.9789 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.97 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.45 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 12.7 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Freimut Börngen |
| Date of discovery | December 10, 1991 |
| Another name | 1991 XR 1 , 1971 UA 3 , 1990 RX 9 |
| 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. | |
(6653) Feininger is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on December 10, 1991 by the German astronomer Freimut Börngen at the Karl Schwarzschild Observatory ( observatory code 033) near Tautenburg .
The asteroid is named after the German-American painter , graphic artist and caricaturist Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956).
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Feininger: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Feininger in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (6653) Feininger in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).