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Discovery and designation
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| Discovered by | Marguerite Laugier |
| Discovery site | Nice |
| Discovery date | November 23, 1948 |
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Designations
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| MPC designation | 1681 |
| Alternate name(s) | 1948 WE |
| Epoch May 14, 2008 | |
| Ap | 3.2533933 |
| Peri | 2.1380499 |
| Eccentricity | 0.2068729 |
| Orbital period | 1616.6313283 |
| Mean anomaly | 134.08856 |
| Inclination | 7.22495 |
| Longitude of ascending node | 94.62868 |
| Argument of peri | 0.78024 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 11.56 |
1681 Steinmetz (1948 WE) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 23, 1948 by Marguerite Laugier at Nice.
According to a proposal by Otto Kippes, who verified the discovery, it was named after German amateur astronomer Julius Steinmetz (1893–1965) from Gerolfingen.
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