Discovered by F. Borngen Alternative names 1991 RB4 Discovered 12 September 1991 Asteroid group Asteroid belt | Discovery date 12 September 1991 Observation arc 8676 days (23.75 yr) Orbits Sun MPC designation 9344 | |
Aphelion 2.5719759 AU (384.76212 Gm) Perihelion 2.1563749 AU (322.58909 Gm) Named after Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock Discovery site Karl Schwarzschild Observatory Discoverers Freimut Börngen, Lutz D. Schmadel | ||
9344 Klopstock (1991 RB4) is a dark main-belt asteroid that is 17 km in diameter and was discovered on September 12, 1991 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg. With an albedo of 0.01, it is the 3rd darkest asteroid on the JPL Small-Body Database. The very low albedo (reflectivity) makes the asteroid unusually large for the absolute magnitude (H) of 14.2.
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