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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 | September 30, 1973 | |||||||||
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Designations
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| MPC designation | 9910 Vogelweide | |||||||||
| Named after | Walther von der Vogelweide | |||||||||
| Alternate name(s) | 3181 T-2, 2115 T-1 | |||||||||
| Epoch October 27, 2007 | ||||||||||
| Ap | 2.9557028 AU | |||||||||
| Peri | 2.7866602 AU | |||||||||
| Semi-major axis | 2.8711815 AU | |||||||||
| Eccentricity | 0.0294378 | |||||||||
| Orbital period | 1777.0080920 d | |||||||||
| Mean anomaly | 322.75616° | |||||||||
| Inclination | 3.36865° | |||||||||
| Longitude of ascending node | 95.23738° | |||||||||
| Argument of peri | 306.78007° | |||||||||
| Dimensions | ~23.4 km[1] | |||||||||
| Geometric albedo | ~0.01 | |||||||||
| Surface temp. Kelvin Celsius |
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| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.0 | |||||||||
9910 Vogelweide is a main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun once every 4.87 years.[2]
Discovered on September 30, 1973 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 "3181 T-2". It was later renamed "Vogelweide" after Walther von der Vogelweide, a German minstrel of the thirteenth century.[3]
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