(73699) Landaupfalz
Asteroid (73699) Landaupfalz |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Middle main belt |
Major semi-axis | 2.538 AU |
eccentricity | 0.287 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 1.809 AU - 3.268 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 7.5 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 213 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 193.8 ° |
Sidereal period | 4.04 a |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 15.2 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Lutz D. Schmadel , Freimut Börngen |
Date of discovery | 4th October 1991 |
Another name | 1991 TH 3 , 1995 XF 2 |
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. |
(73699) Landaupfalz is an asteroid in the central main belt that was discovered by the German astronomers Lutz D. Schmadel and Freimut Börngen on October 4, 1991 at the Tautenburg observatory ( IAU code 033) in Thuringia .
The asteroid was named on January 12, 2017 after the city of Landau in der Pfalz in the south of Rhineland-Palatinate . The place is located in the middle of a wine region and had one of the strongest citadels in Europe during the French rule with the fortress Landau in the 17th century.
Web links
- (73699) Landaupfalz in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (73699) Landaupfalz in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)
- Discovery Circumstances of (73699) Landaupfalz according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)