(9511) Klingsor

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( 9511 ) Klingsor is a main belt asteroid of the middle, which was discovered on 16 October 1977 by the Dutch astronomer Cornelis Johannes van Houten couple and Ingrid van Houten - Groeneveld. The discovery happened at the 3rd trojan screening, in which the 120 - cm Oschin Schmidt telescope of the Palomar Observatory recorded by Tom Gehrels field plates at Leiden University were screened, 17 years after the beginning of the Palomar - Leiden Surveys. An unconfirmed sighting of the asteroid, there had been already December 20, 1973 under the provisional designation 1973 YQ2 at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj.

The asteroid belongs to gefion family, a group of asteroids of the middle main belt, which was named after ( 1272 ) gefion. Previously, the group was also known as Ceres family ( according to (1 ) Ceres, Vincenzo Zappalà 1995) and Minerva family ( according to (93 ) Minerva, AstDyS -2 database ). The timeless ( nichtoskulierenden ) orbital elements of ( 9511 ) Klingsor are almost identical to those of the smaller, if we start from the absolute brightness of 15.3 compared with 13.1, asteroids ( 175 204 ) 2005 FT5.

( 9511 ) Klingsor was named after the magician Klingsor from Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal on 11 November 2000.