(11844) Ostwald

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( 11844 ) Ostwald is an asteroid of the outer main belt, which was discovered on 22 August 1987 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory in Chile ( IAU code 809). Unconfirmed sightings of the asteroid it had previously been several: on May 25, 1972, the provisional designation 1952 KF1 at the Argentine Astronómico Observatorio de La Plata as well as in September 1976 at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj (1976 SV3 ).

The asteroid belongs to the Themis family, a group of asteroids named after ( 24) Themis.

( 11844 ) Ostwald was named on 26 September 2007 after the Baltic German chemist Wilhelm Ostwald, the 1909 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded " in recognition of his work on catalysis and for his fundamental studies of chemical equilibrium and rates of reaction ." After Wilhelm Ostwald, a lunar crater in the northern hemisphere moon was already in 1970 been named: Moon crater Ostwald.

Orbital inclination Longitude of the ascending node Argument of periapsis Intrinsic brightness Minor planet designation Argentina Crimean Astrophysical Observatory (24) Themis Chemical kinetics Lunar craters Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, California Minor Planet Center International Astronomical Union Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge (Massachusetts)
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