38442 Szilárd

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( 38442 ) Szilárd is an asteroid of the outer main belt, which on 24 September 1999 by the Hungarian amateur astronomers Krisztián Sárneczky and Hungarian astronomers Gyula M. Szabó on Piszkéstetői Obszervatórium (IAU code 461 ) in the North Hungarian Mátra behalf of the University of Szeged was discovered.

The asteroid is a member of the Koronis family, a group of asteroids that is named after (158 ) Koronis. After FORMING classification (Small Main -Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey) were assumed in ( 38442 ) Szilárd from a bright surface with a spectroscopic investigation of Gianluca Masi, Sergio Foglia and Richard P. Binzel, it might be so, roughly speaking, to act an S- asteroids.

The timeless ( nichtoskulierenden ) orbital elements of ( 38442 ) Sizlárd are almost identical with those of five smaller asteroids, if one of the absolute brightness of 15.0, 14.3, 14.7, 15.9 and 15.4 compared to 13 9 assumes: ( 40783 ) 1999 TT28, ( 50896 ) 2000 GS43, ( 59935 ) 1999 RR187, ( 198 605 ) in 2005 and AM19 ( 208 140 ) in 2000 EJ34.

( 38442 ) Szilárd was named after the Hungarian- American nuclear physicist and molecular biologist Leo Szilard on 30 July 2007. After Leo Szilárd a lunar crater in the northern hemisphere moon was already in 1970 been named: Moon crater Szilard.