(73699) Landaupfalz

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Asteroid
(73699) Landaupfalz
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  4th September 2017 ( JD 2,458,000.5)
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
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(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.

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