Discovery | |
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Discovered by | Gyula Strommer |
Discovery site | Budapest |
Discovery date | 27 August 1940 |
Designations | |
MPC designation | 1537 |
Named after
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Transylvania |
1940 QA | |
Orbital characteristics | |
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
Observation arc | 112.44 yr (41068 days) |
Aphelion | 3.9667225 AU (593.41324 Gm) |
Perihelion | 2.1314205 AU (318.85597 Gm) |
3.049071 AU (456.1345 Gm) | |
Eccentricity | 0.3009608 |
5.32 yr (1944.7 d) | |
70.062131° | |
0° 11m 6.431s / day | |
Inclination | 3.857786° |
230.12903° | |
148.00187° | |
Earth MOID | 1.13351 AU (169.571 Gm) |
Jupiter MOID | 1.51221 AU (226.223 Gm) |
Jupiter Tisserand parameter | 3.163 |
Physical characteristics | |
Mean radius
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±0.75 6.885km |
12 h (0.50 d) | |
±0.041 0.1619 | |
12.4 | |
1537 Transylvania (1940 QA) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 27, 1940, by Gyula Strommer at Budapest.
It was a lost asteroid until Leif Kahl Kristensen at Aarhus University rediscovered it along with 452 Hamiltonia along with numerous other small objects in 1981