(10506) Rydberg

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Asteroid
(10506) Rydberg
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  4th September 2017 ( JD 2,458,000.5)
Orbit type Main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis 2.9938  AU
eccentricity 0.0483
Perihelion - aphelion 2.8492 AU - 3.1384 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 6.9346 °
Length of the ascending node 249.4335 °
Argument of the periapsis 206.5473 °
Sidereal period 5.18 a
Mean orbital velocity 17.21 km / s
Physical Properties
Medium diameter 13,348 km (± 2,852)
Albedo 0.054 (± 0.052)
Absolute brightness 13.5 likes
history
Explorer Eric Walter Elst
Date of discovery February 13, 1988
Another name 1988 CW 4 , 1991 VX 12
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(10506) Rydberg is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 13 February 1988 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( IAU code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile was discovered.

The asteroid was named on March 20, 2000 after the Swedish physicist Johannes Rydberg (1854-1919), who is mainly known for setting up the Rydberg formula and the Rydberg constant named after him .

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