(6456) Golombek

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( 6456 ) Golombek is an asteroid that was discovered by the U.S. American astronomer Eleanor Helin and Kenneth Lawrence on July 27, 1992 at Palomar Observatory (IAU code 675) in California.

( 6456 ) Golombek is an asteroid Cupid type. He belongs to the subgroup Amor III, that is, that he belongs to a group of asteroids that come to the Earth's orbit quite close, but do not cross, while its semi-major axis (which is the average distance from the Sun ) in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is.

After FORMING classification (Small Main -Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey) were assumed in ( 6456 ) Golombek of 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. An infrared spectroscopic study of the asteroid from 2006 pointed to Olivinbanden with ortho-and clinopyroxenes in the line spectrum. For a classification of the asteroid body in a taxonomic class, however, the previous spectroscopic studies are not yet sufficient.

The asteroid was named on 14 December 1997 after the geologist Matthew Golombek, who worked for the Earth and Space Sciences Division Jet Propulsion laboratorys for the project office of the Mars Pathfinder probe.