(6996) Alvensleben

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( 6996 ) Alvensleben is an asteroid of the outer main asteroid belt, which was discovered on 29 September 1973 at the Palomar - Leiden Survey of the Dutch team of observers Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten - Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels.

Alvensleben moves at a distance of 3.0867 ( perihelion ) to 3.7568 ( aphelion ) astronomical units in 6,330 years of the sun. The orbit is inclined 4.0648 ° to the ecliptic, the orbital eccentricity is 0.0979.

The name of the asteroid was chosen in honor of Bertha Alvensleben (1859-1912), an ancestor of the connected since the 12th century, Saxony-Anhalt Family Of Alvensleben.