Discovered by E. L. Johnson Alternative names 1949 QC Discovered 22 August 1949 Asteroid group Asteroid belt | Discovery date 22 August 1949 Observation arc 24300 days (66.53 yr) Orbits Sun MPC designation 3184 | |
Aphelion 3.3693459 AU (504.04697 Gm) Perihelion 1.9610525 AU (293.36928 Gm) People also search for Sun, 1568 Aisleen, 1623 Vivian | ||
3184 Raab (1949 QC) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 22, 1949 by E. L. Johnson at the Union Observatory, Johannesburg, South Africa.
In May 1996, following a proposal by Brian G. Marsden and Gareth V. Williams, the asteroid was named in honor of Herbert Raab, an Austrian software engineer, amateur astronomer and developer of the software Astrometrica.
From observations made with the WISE space telescope, the diameter of the asteroid was determined to 19.3 kilometers, the albedo to 0.05. The low albedo of this objects suggests that is a C-type asteroid.
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