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721 Tabora

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Discovered by
  
Franz Kaiser

Alternative names
  
1911 MZ

Aphelion
  
3.9621 AU (592.72 Gm)

Discovered
  
18 October 1911

Orbits
  
Sun

Asteroid group
  
Cybele asteroid

Discovery date
  
18 October 1911

Observation arc
  
104.47 yr (38159 d)

Perihelion
  
3.1388 AU (469.56 Gm)

Absolute magnitude
  
9.26

Discoverer
  
Franz Kaiser

Discovery site
  
Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory

Similar
  
528 Rezia, 540 Rosamunde, 679 Pax, 509 Iolanda, 625 Xenia

721 Tabora is a planetoid orbiting the Sun.

Tabora was named at a conference in Hamburg, Germany in 1913. The name was chosen because the conference was held aboard the passenger cargo liner Tabora of the Deutsche Ost-Afrika Linie.

References

721 Tabora Wikipedia