(9344) Klopstock

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Asteroid
(9344) Klopstock
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  September 30, 2012 ( JD 2,456,200.5)
Orbit type Main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis 2.3644  AU
eccentricity 0.0878
Perihelion - aphelion 2.1567 AU - 2.5721 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 5.0283 °
Sidereal period 3.64 a
Mean orbital velocity 19.36 km / s
Physical Properties
Medium diameter 17.05 km (± 1.5)
Albedo 0.0116 (± 0.002)
Absolute brightness 14.3 mag
history
Explorer Freimut Börngen
Date of discovery September 12, 1991
Another name 1991 RB 4 , 1995 WK 2
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(9344) Klopstock is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on September 12, 1991 by the German astronomer Freimut Börngen at the Thuringian State Observatory Tautenburg ( observatory code 033) in Thuringia .

The asteroid is named after the German poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724–1803), an important German exponent of sensitivity .

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