(10746) Muhlhausen
Asteroid (10746) Muhlhausen |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Asteroid family | Eunomia family |
Major semi-axis | 2.6991 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1577 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.2734 AU - 3.1248 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 12.1230 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 325.7551 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 315.1832 ° |
Sidereal period | 4.43 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 18.13 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 13.1 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Freimut Börngen |
Date of discovery | February 10, 1989 |
Another name | 1989 CE 6 , 1986 PH 3 , 1997 WJ 22 |
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. |
(10746) Mühlhausen is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on February 10, 1989 by the German astronomer Freimut Börngen at the Thuringian state observatory in Tautenburg ( IAU code 033) in Thuringia . Earlier observations of the asteroid had already been made in August 1986 at the Palomar Observatory in California under the provisional designation 1986 PH 3 .
The asteroid belongs to the Eunomia family, a group named after (15) Eunomia , to which probably five percent of the asteroids in the main belt belong.
(10746) Mühlhausen was named on January 24, 2000 after the district town of Mühlhausen in the Unstrut-Hainich district in Thuringia, which became known as the place of work of Johann Sebastian Bach and Thomas Müntzer and its rich historical legacy.
See also
Web links
- (10746) Mühlhausen in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (10746) Mühlhausen in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- Discovery Circumstances of (10746) Mühlhausen according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ (10746) Mühlhausen at the IAU Minor Planet Center (English)