(10746) Muhlhausen

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Asteroid
(10746) Muhlhausen
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  December 9, 2014 ( JD 2,457,000.5)
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.

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Individual evidence

  1. (10746) Mühlhausen at the IAU Minor Planet Center (English)