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1556 Wingolfia

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Discovered by
  
K. Reinmuth

Alternative names
  
1942 AA

Discovered
  
14 January 1942

Discoverer
  
Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth

MPC designation
  
1556

Discovery date
  
14 January 1942

Observation arc
  
74.01 yr (27033 days)

Orbits
  
Sun

Asteroid group
  
Asteroid belt

Aphelion
  
3.7997873 AU (568.44009 Gm)

Perihelion
  
3.0540727 AU (456.88277 Gm)

Discovery site
  
Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl

Similar
  
1862 Apollo, Sun, 1419 Danzig, 1056 Azalea, 1111 Reinmuthia

1556 Wingolfia (1942 AA) is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on January 14, 1942, by K. Reinmuth at Heidelberg. The discoverer named it after the German Studentenverbindung Heidelberger Wingolf.

References

1556 Wingolfia Wikipedia


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