(4549) Burkhardt
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Asteroid (4549) Burkhardt |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Hertha family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4373 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1532 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0638 AU - 2.8108 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.832 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3,805 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.08 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | ? km |
| Albedo | ? |
| Rotation period | ? |
| Absolute brightness | 14.1 mag |
| Spectral class | ? |
| history | |
| Explorer |
C. J. van Houten , I. van Houten-Groeneveld T. Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | 29th September 1973 |
| Another name | 1276 T-2 , 1977 VG, 1986 AS 1 |
| 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. | |
(4549) Burkhardt is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on September 29, 1973 by the research team Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels as part of the Palomar-Leiden survey .
The asteroid is named after the German astronomer Gernot Burkhardt , who works at the Astronomical Computing Institute (ARI) at Heidelberg University .