(96206) Eschenberg
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Asteroid (96206) Eschenberg |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.0713 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1495 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6125 AU - 3.5303 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.5144 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.38 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.2 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 5.581 km |
| Albedo | 0.082 |
| Rotation period | H |
| Absolute brightness | 14.8 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Freimut Börngen and Lutz D. Schmadel |
| Date of discovery | September 24, 1992 |
| Another name | 1992 SU 17 , 1995 EQ 9 , 2003 ES 291 |
| 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. | |
The asteroid (96206) Eschenberg was discovered photographically on September 24, 1992 by professional astronomers Freimut Börngen and Lutz D. Schmadel in Tautenburg near Jena with the local 2 m universal telescope. It bears the name of the Eschenberg observatory . The nomination took place on June 9, 2017
Markus Griesser , who has been director of the Eschenberg observatory for many years, has been close friends for many years with the first discoverer, Freimut Börngen . The second discoverer, Lutz D. Schmadel, director of astronomy at the ARI Astronomical Computing Institute in Heidelberg, died in autumn 2016. For a long time he was a member of the eponymous committee of the International Astronomical Union IAU and is also the author of a highly regarded standard work on asteroid names .
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- ↑ a b Measurement by NEOWISE 2011, bibcode : 2011ApJ ... 741 ... 68M