4385 Elsässer

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4385 Elsässer
Name
Name Elsässer
Designation 2534 P-L
Discovery
Discoverer Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels
Discovery date September 24, 1960
Orbital elements
Epoch October 27, 2007 (JDCT 2454400.5)
Eccentricity (e) 0.1803469
Semimajor axis (a) 3.1708148 AU
Perihelion (q) 2.5989682 AU
Aphelion (Q) 3.7426614 AU
Orbital period (P) 5.65 a
Inclination (i) 0.57975°
Longitude of the ascending node (Ω) 61.04395°
Argument of Perihelion (ω) 312.15530°
Mean anomaly (M) 132.27912°

4385 Elsässer is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 2062.3137258 days (5.65 years).[1]

The asteroid was discovered on September 24, 1960.

References

  1. "JPL Small-Body Database Browser". NASA. Retrieved 2008-04-21. 
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