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Discovery and designation
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| Discovered by | C. J. van Houten, I. van Houten-Groeneveld & T. Gehrels | |||||||||
| Discovery date | March 26, 1971 | |||||||||
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Designations
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| MPC designation | 9909 Eschenbach | |||||||||
| Named after | Wolfram von Eschenbach | |||||||||
| Alternate name(s) | 4355 T-1, 1969 VD2, 1994 RW4 | |||||||||
| Epoch October 27, 2007 | ||||||||||
| Ap | 2.7349413 AU | |||||||||
| Peri | 1.9612019 AU | |||||||||
| Semi-major axis | 2.3480716 AU | |||||||||
| Eccentricity | 0.1647606 | |||||||||
| Orbital period | 1314.2120350 d | |||||||||
| Mean anomaly | 214.41062° | |||||||||
| Inclination | 4.31901° | |||||||||
| Longitude of ascending node | 147.26877° | |||||||||
| Argument of peri | 240.19068° | |||||||||
| Dimensions | ~23.4 km[1] | |||||||||
| Geometric albedo | ~0.01 | |||||||||
| Surface temp. Kelvin Celsius |
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| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.8 | |||||||||
9909 Eschenbach is a main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun once every 3.60 years.[2]
Discovered on March 26, 1971 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld on photographic plates made by Tom Gehrels with the Samuel Oschin telescope at the Palomar Observatory, it was given the provisional designation "4355 T-1". It was later renamed "Eschenbach" after Wolfram von Eschenbach, a medieval poet.[3]
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