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846 Lipperta

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Discovery date
  
26 November 1916

Observation arc
  
99.23 yr (36245 d)

Orbits
  
Sun

Asteroid family
  
Themis family

Asteroid group
  
Asteroid belt

Minor planet category
  
Main belt

Discovered
  
26 November 1916

Discoverer
  
K. Gyllenberg

Discovery site
  
Hamburg Observatory

Discovered by
  
Gyllenberg, K. Bergedorf

Aphelion
  
3.6963 AU (552.96 Gm) (Q)

Perihelion
  
2.5562 AU (382.40 Gm) (q)

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846 Lipperta is a Themistian asteroid.

Based on lightcurve studies, Lipperta has a rotation period of 1641 hours, but this figure is based on less than full coverage, so that the period may be wrong by 30 percent or so. The lack of variation in brightness could be caused by (a) very slow rotation, (b) near pole-on viewing aspect, or (c) a spherical body with uniform albedo.

References

846 Lipperta Wikipedia