9938 Kretlow
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| Discovery and designation | |||||||||||||
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| Discovered by | W. Landgraf | ||||||||||||
| Discovery date | May 18, 1988 | ||||||||||||
| Designations | |||||||||||||
| MPC designation | 9938 Kretlow | ||||||||||||
| 1988 KA, 1982 VE2, 1985 QL | |||||||||||||
| Orbital characteristics | |||||||||||||
| Epoch October 27, 2007 | |||||||||||||
| Aphelion | 2.5460669 AU | ||||||||||||
| Perihelion | 1.7334961 AU | ||||||||||||
| 2.1397815 AU | |||||||||||||
| Eccentricity | 0.1898724 | ||||||||||||
| 1143.2799024 d | |||||||||||||
| 53.48047° | |||||||||||||
| Inclination | 3.80361° | ||||||||||||
| 86.17411° | |||||||||||||
| 222.71735° | |||||||||||||
| Physical characteristics | |||||||||||||
| Dimensions | ~13.5 km[1] | ||||||||||||
| ~0.01 | |||||||||||||
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| 13.8 | |||||||||||||
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9938 Kretlow is a main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun once every 3.13 years.[2]
Discovered on May 18, 1988 by W. Landgraf at the European Southern Observatory, it was given the provisional designation "1988 KA". It was later named "Kretlow" after Mike Kretlow, a student at the University of Siegen who studied comets and a longtime friend of the discoverer of 9938 Kretlow.[3]
References
- ↑ Tedesco E.F., Noah P.V., Noah M., Price S.D. "The supplemental IRAS minor planet survey (SIMPS)".
- ↑ "9938 Kretlow (1988 KA)". JPL Small-Body Database Browser. NASA/JPL. Retrieved 2008-02-19.
- ↑ MPC 42359 Minor Planet Center
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