10628 Feuerbacher

10628 Feuerbacher
Name
Name Feuerbacher
Designation 1998 BD5
Discovery
Discoverer OCA-DLR Asteroid Survey
Discovery date January 18, 1998
Orbital elements
Epoch October 27, 2007 (JDCT 2454400.5)
Eccentricity (e) 0.1232469
Semimajor axis (a) 3.1131986 AU
Perihelion (q) 2.7295065 AU
Aphelion (Q) 3.4968907 AU
Orbital period (P) 5.49 a
Inclination (i) 5.79289°
Longitude of the ascending node (Ω) 149.08546°
Argument of Perihelion (ω) 116.20834°
Mean anomaly (M) 184.75375°

10628 Feuerbacher is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 2006.3591553 days (5.49 years).[1]

The asteroid was discovered on January 18, 1998. It was named after the scientist Prof. Dr. Berndt Feuerbacher, former director of the institute of space simulation at the German Aerospace Center, on occasion of his retirement in June 2006.

References

  1. "JPL Small-Body Database Browser". NASA. Retrieved 2008-04-25.