Discovery date 20 September 1993 Observation arc 11862 days (32.48 yr) Orbits Sun Asteroid group Asteroid belt | Alternative names 1993 SK3 Discovered 20 September 1993 Named after Hermann von Helmholtz MPC designation 11573 | |
Discovered by Freimut Börngen and Lutz D. Schmadel Aphelion 4.12319 AU (616.820 Gm) Perihelion 2.39387 AU (358.118 Gm) Discovery site Karl Schwarzschild Observatory Discoverers Freimut Börngen, Lutz D. Schmadel | ||
11573 Helmholtz (1993 SK3) is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on September 20, 1993, by Freimut Börngen and Lutz D. Schmadel at Tautenburg. It is one of very few asteroids located in the 2 : 1 mean motion resonance with Jupiter.
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