(7565) tip
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Asteroid (7565) tip |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.056 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.132 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.653 AU - 3.459 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.3 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5 a 125 d |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | approx. 6–12 km |
| Absolute brightness | 13.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | SJ bus |
| Date of discovery | September 14, 1988 |
| Another name | 1988 RD11 |
| 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. | |
(7565) Zipfel is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 14 September 1988 by the US astronomer SJ Bus at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory was discovered.
The asteroid is named after Jutta Zipfel, who has headed the Meteorite Research Section at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt am Main since 2005 . Before that, she worked in the Cosmochemistry Department of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz .
The asteroid's elliptical orbit was 2.322 astronomical units (AU) from Earth and 2.761 AU from the Sun on April 2, 2007 .