(10847) Koch

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( 10847 ) Cooking is an asteroid of the outer main belt, which was discovered by the German astronomer frankness Börngen on 5 January 1995 at the Tautenburg Observatory (IAU code 033) in the Thuringian Forest Tautenburger.

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. Eos asteroids usually have a rather bright surface. After FORMING classification (Small Main -Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey), it was considered at ( 10847 ) Koch of a dark surface with a spectroscopic investigation of Gianluca Masi, Sergio Foglia and Richard P. Binzel, it could be then, roughly speaking, be a C- asteroids.

( 10847 ) Koch was appointed on 24 January 2000 at the suggestion of sincerity Börngen after the German physician and microbiologist Robert Koch. Koch was next to Louis Pasteur the founder of modern bacteriology and microbiology and received the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine " for his investigations and discoveries in the field of tuberculosis ." According to Pasteur, an asteroid of the middle main belt was back in 1991 has been named, ( 4804 ) Pasteur and Robert Koch in 1970 after a lunar crater in the southern hemisphere moon, lunar crater Koch.