(6796) Sundsvall

Asteroid (6796) Sundsvall
Properties of the orbit ( animation ) Epoch: December 9, 2014 ( JD 2,457,000.5)
Orbit type	Middle main belt asteroid
Asteroid family	Lydia family
Major semi-axis	2.7413 AU
eccentricity	0.0596
Perihelion - aphelion	2.5781 AU - 2.9045 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane	5.0251 °
Length of the ascending node	204.9016 °
Argument of the periapsis	104.2671 °
Sidereal period	4.54 a
Mean orbital velocity	18.00 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness	13.6 mag
history
Explorer	Uppsala-ESO Survey of Asteroids and Comets at the La Silla Observatory
Date of discovery	March 21, 1993
Another name	1993 FH ₂₄ , 1976 QM ₂ , 1990 SF ₁₄
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(6796) Sundsvall is an asteroid of the central main belt , which was discovered on March 21, 1993 during the Uppsala-ESO Surveys of Asteroids and Comets at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory in Chile ( IAU code 809). There had been several sightings of the asteroid before, for example on August 29, 1976 under the provisional designation 1976 QM ₂ at the Felix Aguilar Observatory in Argentina and on September 23 and 24, 1990 (1990 SF ₁₄ ) also at La-Silla -Observatory.

The asteroid belongs to the Lydia family, a group of asteroids named after (110) Lydia . The timeless (non- osculating ) orbital elements of (6796) Sundsvall are almost identical to those of the two smaller ones, assuming the absolute magnitude of 15.4 and 15.3 compared to 13.6, asteroids (42005) 2000 YW ₄₉ and ( 72445) 2001 DD .

(6796) Sundsvall was named on September 28, 1999 after the Swedish city of Sundsvall .

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