(21678) Lindner
Asteroid (21678) Lindner |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt |
Major semi-axis | 2.5466 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1527 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.1578 AU - 2.9354 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 7.6069 ° |
Sidereal period | 4.06 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 18.65 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 14.4 mag |
history | |
Explorer |
Gerhard Lehmann Jens Kandler |
Date of discovery | September 5, 1999 |
Another name | 1999 RK 27 , 1991 RW 26 , 1998 KJ 59 |
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. |
(21678) Lindner is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on September 5, 1999 by the German amateur astronomers Gerhard Lehmann and Jens Kandler at the Drebach observatory ( IAU code 113) in Saxony .
The asteroid was named after the German astronomer, teacher and author Klaus Lindner (* 1935), who wrote numerous specialist books on astronomy .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Lindner: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (21678) Lindner in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (21678) Lindner in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).