(4177) Kohman

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( 4177 ) is a main-belt asteroid Kohman, which was discovered on September 21, 1987 by Edward LG Bowell from which Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory.

The orbit of the asteroid around the sun is in a 2:1 resonance with the orbit of Jupiter. This resonance zone is called Hecuba gap. There are there only a few asteroids. It is believed that the orbit of ( 4177 ) Kohman for only about 100 to 500 million years stable, it is thus assigned to the Griqua asteroids, named after ( 1362 ) Griqua, the first and largest ever discovered asteroid with these properties.

( 4177 ) Kohman was after Truman Paul Kohman (* 1916), a co-discoverer of aluminum isotope 26Al named.