(55735) Magdeburg
Asteroid (55735) Magdeburg |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 2.6145 AU |
eccentricity | 0.2842 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 1.6145 AU - 3.8714 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 10.9978 ° |
Sidereal period | 4.23 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 18.42 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Rotation period | 15.41 h |
Absolute brightness | 13.9 likes |
history | |
Explorer | F. Börngen |
Date of discovery | August 22, 1987 |
Another name | 1987 QV, 2000 SA 287 , |
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. |
(55735) Magdeburg is an asteroid of the main belt , which was discovered on August 22, 1987 by the German astronomer Freimut Börngen at the Thuringian State Observatory Tautenburg .
It was named on August 6, 2003 after the city of Magdeburg , the capital of the German state Saxony-Anhalt .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Magdeburg: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Magdeburg in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (55735) Magdeburg in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).