(20074) Lasker students

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Asteroid
(20074) Laskerschueler
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  April 18, 2013 ( JD 2,456,400.5)
Orbit type Main belt asteroid
Asteroid family Vesta family
Major semi-axis 2.2908  AU
eccentricity 0.0668
Perihelion - aphelion 2.1378 AU - 2.4438 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 7.7870 °
Sidereal period 3.47 a
Mean orbital velocity 19.67 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness 14.9 mag
history
Explorer Freimut Börngen
Date of discovery January 14, 1994
Another name 1994 AF 16 , 1998 HW 104 , 1999 SX 18
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(20074) Laskerschueler is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on January 14, 1994 by the German astronomer Freimut Börngen at the Thuringian state observatory in Tautenburg ( IAU code 033) in Thuringia .

The asteroid was named after the German - Jewish poet Else Lasker-Schüler (1869–1945), an outstanding representative of avant-garde modernism and expressionism , who left Germany in 1933 after reprisals by the National Socialists .

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