Discovery date 15 December 1957 Minor planet category main-belt Discovered 15 December 1957 Orbits Sun Discovery site Goethe Link Observatory Discoverer Indiana Asteroid Program | MPC designation 1765 Wrubel Observation arc 98.29 yr (35900 days) Absolute magnitude 9.92 Named after Marshal Henry Wrubel Asteroid group Asteroid belt | |
Discovered by Indiana University
(Indiana Asteroid Program) Alternative names 1957 XB · 1938 JB
1945 VA · 1949 HK1
1951 XB1 · 1955 KQ
1966 KA · A906 XA
A917 XA | ||
1765 Wrubel, provisionally designated 1957 XB, is a main-belt asteroid, discovered on December 15, 1957 by the Indiana Asteroid Program at Goethe Link Observatory in the U.S. state of Indiana. It measures about 42 kilometers in diameter and has a rare Dx-spectral type (Tholen).
The asteroid is named in honor of Marshal Henry Wrubel, professor and faculty member at Indiana University. He was co-founder of the Indiana University Research Computing Center and a pioneer in the use of high speed computers for astrophysical computations.
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