(4636) Chile

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( 4636 ) Chile is a main belt asteroid of the middle, which was discovered on 13 February 1988 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory in Chile ( IAU code 809). There were to photographic plates of the 1- meter Schmidt telescope used, which had been taken by the Chilean astronomers Guido Pizarro and were evaluated by Erik Walter Elst.

Unconfirmed sightings of the asteroid it had previously been several: in October 1931 the provisional designation 1931 TJ4 at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona, on 24 September 1952 ( 1952 SQ) at the Goethe Link Observatory, Indiana and 1986 at the Anderson Mesa station of the Lowell Observatory (1986 TO2 ).

The asteroid belongs to the Eunomia family, one named after (15 ) Eunomia group, which includes probably five percent of the asteroids of the main belt. After FORMING classification (Small Main -Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey) were assumed in ( 4636 ) Chile from a bright surface with a spectroscopic investigation of Gianluca Masi, Sergio Foglia and Richard P. Binzel, it might be so, roughly speaking, to act an S- asteroids.

The timeless ( nichtoskulierenden ) orbital elements of ( 4636 ) Chile are almost identical to those of the smaller, if we start from the absolute brightness of 14.9 compared with 12.7, asteroid ( 72323 ) 2001 BQ50.

( 4636 ) Chile is named after the South American country of Chile on February 18, 1992.