9908 Aue
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| Discovered by | C. J. van Houten, I. van Houten-Groeneveld & T. Gehrels | ||||||||||||
| Discovery date | March 25, 1971 | ||||||||||||
| Designations | |||||||||||||
| MPC designation | 9908 Aue | ||||||||||||
Named after | Hartmann von Aue | ||||||||||||
| 2140 T-1, 1984 YJ6, 1991 HC3, 1998 SZ123 | |||||||||||||
| Orbital characteristics | |||||||||||||
| Epoch October 27, 2007 | |||||||||||||
| Aphelion | 3.052157211593745 AU | ||||||||||||
| Perihelion | 2.74876033808799 AU | ||||||||||||
| 2.90045877484086 AU | |||||||||||||
| Eccentricity | 0.0523015317675745 | ||||||||||||
| 1804.257305676249 d | |||||||||||||
| 215.3411767249796° | |||||||||||||
| Inclination | 2.48545325331787° | ||||||||||||
| 43.21048493615079° | |||||||||||||
| 24.9665530307365° | |||||||||||||
| Physical characteristics | |||||||||||||
| Dimensions | ~17.8 km[1] | ||||||||||||
| ~0.01 | |||||||||||||
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| 13.2 | |||||||||||||
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9908 Aue is a main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun once every 4.94 years.[2] It has been identified as a member of the Koronis family of asteroids.[3]
Discovered on March 25, 1971 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld on photographic plates taken by Tom Gehrels at the Palomar Observatory using the Samuel Oschin telescope, it was given the provisional designation "2140 T-1". It was later renamed "Aue" after Hartmann von Aue, a German poet and participant in the Third Crusade.[4]
References
- ↑ Tedesco E.F., Noah P.V., Noah M., Price S.D. "The supplemental IRAS minor planet survey (SIMPS)".
- ↑ "9908 Aue (2140 T-1)". JPL Small-Body Database Browser. NASA/JPL. Retrieved 2008-02-05.
- ↑ Zappala, V., Ph. Bendjoya, A. Cellino, P. Farinella, and C. Froeschle (1997). "Asteroid Dynamical Families.". EAR-A-5-DDR-FAMILY-V4.1. NASA Planetary Data System.
- ↑ MPC 34356 Minor Planet Center
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