(204873) FAIR

Asteroid (204873) FAIR
Properties of the orbit ( animation ) Epoch: April 27, 2019 ( JD 2,458,600.5)
Orbit type	Middle main belt
Major semi-axis	2.5266 AU
eccentricity	0.1207
Perihelion - aphelion	2.2116 AU - 2.8316 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane	2.9655 °
Length of the ascending node	89.6521 °
Argument of the periapsis	218.4348 °
Time of passage of the perihelion	17th May 2019
Sidereal period	4.02 a
Mean orbital velocity	18.67 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness	16.8 likes
history
Explorer	Erwin Schwab , Rainer Kling
Date of discovery	September 17, 2007
Another name	2007 SW ₁
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(204873) FAIR is an asteroid of the middle main belt , which was discovered on September 17, 2007 by the German amateur astronomers Erwin Schwab and Rainer Kling at the 60 cm Cassegrain telescope of the Hans Ludwig Neumann observatory on the Kleine Feldberg ( IAU code B01) was discovered. At the time of its discovery, on the night of September 16-17, 2007, the asteroid was around 230 million kilometers away, at the closest point in its orbit.

(204873) FAIR is named after the International Accelerator Center FAIR , a facility of the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt for research with ion and antiproton beams . The asteroid was named on August 6, 2009.

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