9909 Eschenbach
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| Discovered by | C. J. van Houten, I. van Houten-Groeneveld & T. Gehrels | ||||||||||||
| Discovery date | March 26, 1971 | ||||||||||||
| Designations | |||||||||||||
| MPC designation | 9909 Eschenbach | ||||||||||||
Named after | Wolfram von Eschenbach | ||||||||||||
| 4355 T-1, 1969 VD2, 1994 RW4 | |||||||||||||
| Orbital characteristics | |||||||||||||
| Epoch October 27, 2007 | |||||||||||||
| Aphelion | 2.7349413 AU | ||||||||||||
| Perihelion | 1.9612019 AU | ||||||||||||
| 2.3480716 AU | |||||||||||||
| Eccentricity | 0.1647606 | ||||||||||||
| 1314.2120350 d | |||||||||||||
| 214.41062° | |||||||||||||
| Inclination | 4.31901° | ||||||||||||
| 147.26877° | |||||||||||||
| 240.19068° | |||||||||||||
| Physical characteristics | |||||||||||||
| Dimensions | ~23.4 km[1] | ||||||||||||
| ~0.01 | |||||||||||||
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| 13.8 | |||||||||||||
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9909 Eschenbach is a main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun once every 3.60 years.[2]
Discovered on March 26, 1971 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld on photographic plates made by Tom Gehrels with the Samuel Oschin telescope at the Palomar Observatory, it was given the provisional designation "4355 T-1". It was later renamed "Eschenbach" after Wolfram von Eschenbach, a medieval poet.[3]
References
- ↑ Tedesco E.F., Noah P.V., Noah M., Price S.D. "The supplemental IRAS minor planet survey (SIMPS)".
- ↑ "9909 Eschenbach (4355 T-1)". JPL Small-Body Database Browser. NASA/JPL. Retrieved 2008-02-05.
- ↑ MPC 34356 Minor Planet Center
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