10551 Göteborg

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( 10551 ) Gothenburg is an asteroid of the outer main belt, which was discovered on 18 December 1992 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the Schmidt telescope of the French Observatoire de Calern in Grasse (IAU code 010). Unconfirmed sightings of the asteroid, there had been already in January 1931 under the provisional designation 1931 AK at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona.

The asteroid is part of the Eos family, a group of asteroids, which typically have semi-major axes from 2.95 to 3.1 AE, bounded on the inside of the Kirkwood gap in the 7:3 resonance with Jupiter, and orbital inclinations between 8 ° and 12 degrees. The group is named after the asteroid (221 ​​) Eos. It is believed that the family was created over one billion years ago by a collision. The timeless ( nichtoskulierenden ) orbital elements of ( 10551 ) Gothenburg are almost identical to those of the smaller, if we start from the absolute brightness of 14.6 compared with 12.0, asteroid ( 50951 ) 2000 GE78.

( 10551 ) Gothenburg was named after the Swedish city of Gothenburg on March 2, 2000.

Longitude of the ascending node Argument of periapsis Orbital speed Intrinsic brightness Minor planet designation France Centre de recherches en géodynamique et astrométrie (221) Eos Jet Propulsion Laboratory NASA Pasadena, California Minor Planet Center International Astronomical Union Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge (Massachusetts)
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