6734 Benzenberg

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6734 Benzenberg is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1891.1838054 days (5.18 years).^[1] The asteroid was discovered on March 23, 1992 and named after Johann Friedrich Benzenberg (1777-1846) who discovered meteors occur in the upper atmosphere.^[2]

References

↑ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser". NASA. Retrieved 2008-05-24.
↑ Hockey, Thomas (2009). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer Publishing. ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0. Retrieved August 22, 2012.

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