(6553) Lake House
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Asteroid (6553) lake house |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| 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 |
| 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. | |
(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.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Seehaus: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Seehaus in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (6553) Seehaus in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).