(69230) Hermes

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( 69230 ) Hermes is the name of an asteroid who does not like 90 % of this small planet is running on a path between Mars and Jupiter, but belongs to the type of the Apollo asteroids, a group of near-Earth objects ( NEOs). From about two million asteroids over 1 km in size that are likely to be from 1000 to 2000.

Hermes was discovered on 28 October 1937 by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth, as the asteroid flew past 1.5x Moon distance to the Earth, its diameter was estimated to be 1200 m. After five days he was lost again. The celestial body named after the Roman messenger god Hermes. Since its orbit could not be determined because of the short observation period, he received no immediate official number, which is the asteroid names usually prefixed.

In October 2003 the minor planet with LONEOS, one of ten modern search projects was recovered and identified. He was given the number 69230th time Hermes passed the earth 10 times more distant (km in 7 million on 4 November 2003 ). A precise orbit determination showed that Hermes had 1942 unobserved approached the earth up to 1.6 times the Moon distance.

Close to the earth that Mars or Venus can probably also tracks come close. The former is called since 1932 Amor type, although such objects with ( 433 ) Eros in 1898 by Georg Witt and ( 719) Albert were discovered in 1911 by Johann Palisa. However, the latter asteroid was lost and only rediscovered in 2000 by the Spacewatch team. Additional properties with near-Earth asteroid orbits are from the Apollo - type and Aten - type.

Hermes is by radar observations a double asteroid with an equally large moon. Photometric observations have shown that orbit the two components in 13.892 hours and always turn to each other the same page.