(256813) Marburg

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Asteroid
(256813) Marburg
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  4th September 2017 ( JD 2,458,000.5)
Orbit type Middle main belt
Major semi-axis 2.721  AU
eccentricity 0.027
Perihelion - aphelion 2.648 AU - 2.794 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 8.1 °
Length of the ascending node 100.1 °
Argument of the periapsis 282.4 °
Sidereal period 4.49 a
Mean orbital velocity 18.05 km / s
Physical Properties
Medium diameter ~ 2.5 (± 0.5) km
Absolute brightness 16.2 mag
history
Explorer Rainer Kling and Erwin Schwab
Date of discovery February 11, 2008
Another name 2008 CW 116 , 2005 NP 16 , 2006 WW 84
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.

(256813) Marburg is an asteroid of the main central belt , which is located between Mars and Jupiter .

It was discovered on February 11, 2008 by the German amateur astronomers Rainer Kling and Erwin Schwab from the Hans-Ludwig-Neumann-Observatory ( IAU code B01) on the Kleiner Feldberg im Taunus . According to Erwin Schwab, the asteroid has a diameter between 2 and 3 kilometers.

The asteroid was named on October 12, 2011 after the Hessian university town of Marburg . The Philipps University of Marburg , founded in 1527, is the oldest still existing university of Protestant origin in the world. The reason for the name for the discoverers was that the city with the Gerling observatory ( IAU code 525), which was established in 1841, is one of the oldest observatories in Hesse. From there, the dwarf planet (1) Ceres was measured astrometrically as early as 1849 . Today the observatory is only opened for exhibitions from time to time.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c asteroid Marburg. In: Homepage of the discoverer Erwin Schwab. Retrieved July 25, 2017 .
  2. ↑ JPL Small-Body Database: 256813 Marburg. In: NASA . Retrieved July 25, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Minor Planet Circulars # 76677. (PDF) In: Minor Planet Center . October 12, 2011, accessed July 25, 2017 .
  4. ^ Gerling observatory of the Philipps University of Marburg. In: Parallaxe und Sternzeit eV. Retrieved on July 25, 2017 .