(754) Malabar
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Asteroid (754) Malabar |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.9892 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0499 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.8402 AU - 3.1382 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 24.511 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.168 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 87.62 km (± 5.6) |
| Albedo | 0.0485 (± 0.007) |
| Rotation period | H |
| Absolute brightness | 9.19 likes |
| Spectral class | XC |
| history | |
| Explorer | August Kopff |
| Date of discovery | August 22, 1906 |
| Another name | 1906 UT |
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(754) Malabar is an asteroid of the main belt , which was discovered on August 22, 1906 by the German astronomer August Kopff in Heidelberg .
The asteroid was named after the Indonesian city of Malabar on West Java . This happened in memory of a Dutch-German expedition to Christmas Island to observe the solar eclipse in 1922.