1206 Numerowia
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Discovery and designation
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Discovered by | K. Reinmuth |
Discovery site | Heidelberg |
Discovery date | October 18, 1931 |
Designations
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MPC designation | 1206 |
Alternative names[1] | 1931 UH |
Epoch May 14, 2008 | |
Ap | 3.0267242 |
Peri | 2.7044516 |
Eccentricity | 0.0562315 |
Orbital period | 1771.8176457 |
Mean anomaly | 64.16563 |
Inclination | 13.01439 |
Longitude of ascending node | 324.50651 |
Argument of peri | 280.46326 |
Absolute magnitude | 11.8 |
1206 Numerowia (1931 UH) is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on October 18, 1931 by K. Reinmuth at Heidelberg. It was named after Boris Vasil'evich Numerov, a Russian astronomer and geophysicist who was executed for espionage by the Soviet Union in 1941. The accusation was based on the fact that a German had named the asteroid after him.