(6175) Cori

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( 6175 ) Cori is one of the major outer asteroid belt, which on 4 December 1983 by the Czech astronomer Antonín Mrkos on Kleť Observatory (IAU code 046) was discovered in Český Krumlov. Unconfirmed sightings of the asteroid, there had been already in November 1954 under the provisional designation 1954 WF at the Goethe Link Observatory, Indiana.

The mean diameter of the asteroid was determined at 11.4 km. He belongs to the Themis family, a group of asteroids named after ( 24) Themis. After FORMING classification (Small Main -Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey) were assumed in ( 6175 ) Cori from a dark surface with a spectroscopic investigation of Gianluca Masi, Sergio Foglia and Richard P. Binzel, it might be so, roughly speaking, to act a C- asteroids.

( 6175 ) Cori is to honor of Prague Biochemist Gerty couple ( 1896-1957 ) and Carl Ferdinand Cori ( 1896-1984 ) named the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine received, " for their discovery of the course of the catalytic glycogen - metabolism ". Also in 1947 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was the Argentine physiologist Bernardo Alberto Houssay, after in 1986 the asteroid main belt of the outer ( 2550 ) Houssay was named. The naming of ( 6175 ) Cori was proposed by the Czech astronomer Jana Ticha by the International Astronomical Union ( IAU) on 23 May 2000. 's Erstlaudatio on May 23, both the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded, but in the next IAU publication was corrected on July 26. After Gerty Cori 1979, a lunar crater in the southern hemisphere moon ( lunar crater Cori) and 1979 Venus crater in the northern Venushemispähre (Venus crater Cori ) was named.