(6553) Lake House

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Asteroid
(6553) lake house
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  4th September 2017 ( JD 2,458,000.5)
Orbit type Outer main belt
Major semi-axis 3.0543  AU
eccentricity 0.0757
Perihelion - aphelion 2.8230 AU - 3.2856 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 13.3575 °
Length of the ascending node 134.9120 °
Argument of the periapsis 145.3679 °
Sidereal period 5.34 a
Mean orbital velocity 17.04 km / s
Physical Properties
Medium diameter 10.404 ± 0.189 km
Albedo 0.196 ± 0.049
Rotation period 3.991 h
Absolute brightness 14.6 mag
history
Explorer M. Geffert
Date of discovery April 5, 1989
Another name 1989 GP 6 , 1968 KO, 1975 XV 6
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(6553) Seehaus is an asteroid of the main outer belt that was discovered on April 5, 1989 by the German astronomer Michael Geffert at the La Silla Observatory ( IAU code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile .

The asteroid was named after the German painter Paul Adolf Seehaus (1891-1919), who was discovered and promoted by August Macke and is assigned to Expressionism . His picture Lighthouse with rotating beams was aryanized from Alfred Flechtheim's collection in 1933 , and Flechtheim's heirs received compensation in 2012.

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