(6481) Tenzing

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( 6481 ) Tenzing is a main belt asteroid of the inner, which was discovered by Czech astronomer Antonín Mrkos on Kleť Observatory (IAU code 046) in Český Krumlov on 9 September 1988. Unconfirmed sightings of the asteroid it had previously been several: August 17, 1950 ( with the provisional designation 1950 QC) at the Goethe Link Observatory, Indiana, in October 1978 (1978 UC3 ) at the Palomar Observatory in California, 28 September 1981 (1981 SV5 ) at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj and on 20 February 1987 ( 1987 DA) at the observatory in the Japanese city of Toyota.

Mean distance from the sun ( semimajor axis), eccentricity and inclination of the orbital plane of the asteroid similar to the path data of the members of the Flora family, a large group of asteroids that is named after ( 8) flora. Asteroids of this family move in an orbital resonance of 4:9 with the planet Mars around the Sun. The group is also called Ariadne family after the asteroid (43 ) Ariadne.

The asteroid is (1914-1986) named after the Nepalese mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, who in 1953 along with Edmund Hillary, after the asteroid ( 3130 ) is named Hillary, the first man to climb Mount Everest. The naming of ( 6481 ) Tenzing made ​​on the proposal of the Czech Miloš Tichý astronomers by the International Astronomical Union ( IAU) on 23 November 1999.