1537 Transylvania
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| Discovery | |
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| Discovered by | Gyula Strommer |
| Discovery site | Budapest |
| Discovery date | August 27, 1940 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 1537 |
| Named after | Transylvania |
| Alternative names | 1940 QA |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch May 14, 2008 | |
| Aphelion | 3.9682900 |
| Perihelion | 2.1199694 |
| Eccentricity | 0.3035877 |
| Orbital period | 1939.9616362 |
| Mean anomaly | 234.31311 |
| Inclination | 3.86098 |
| Longitude of ascending node | 230.28619 |
| Argument of perihelion | 148.05391 |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Albedo | 0.1619 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 11.90 |
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1537 Transylvania (1940 QA) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 27, 1940 by Gyula Strommer at Budapest.
It was a lost asteroid until L. K. Kristensen at Aarhus University rediscovered it along with 452 Hamiltonia along with numerous other small objects in 1981[1]
References
- ↑ (1537) Transylvania and (452) Hamiltonia Kristensen, L. K.; Gibson, J.; Shao, C.-Y.; Bowell, E.; Marsden, B. G. IAU Circ., 3595, 1 (1981). Edited by Marsden, B. G.
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