(2476) Andersen

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( 2476 ) Andersen is a main belt asteroid the outer with a mean diameter of 21.32 (± 1.5 ) kilometers, the Soviet astronomer Nikolai Chernykh of the May 2, 1976 September Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj (IAU code 095) was detected. Unconfirmed sightings of the asteroid it had previously given: on August 27, 1935 (1935 QH1 ) at the Union Observatory in Johannesburg, on 20 April 1939 ( 1939 HD) at the Heidelberg State Observatory King chair, and on 25 December 1973 ( 1973 YC3 ) at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj.

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 ( 2476 ) Andersen are almost identical to those of the smaller, if we start from the absolute brightness of 15.4 versus 11.1, asteroids ( 324 849 ) in 2007 LN6.

( 2476 ) Andersen was named after the Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen on July 2, 1985.