9908 Aue
Appearance
Discovery | |||||||||||||
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Discovered by | C. J. van Houten, I. van Houten-Groeneveld & T. Gehrels | ||||||||||||
Discovery date | March 25, 1971 | ||||||||||||
Designations | |||||||||||||
9908 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 | |||||||||||||
9908 Aue is a main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun once every 4.94 years.[2]
Discovered on March 25, 1971 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld on photographic plates taken by Tom Gehrels, 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.[3]
References
- ^ Tedesco E.F., Noah P.V., Noah M., Price S.D. "The supplemental IRAS minor planet survey (SIMPS)".
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "9908 Aue (2140 T-1)". JPL Small-Body Database Browser. NASA/JPL. Retrieved 2008-02-05.
- ^ MPC 34356 Minor Planet Center