1556 Wingolfia

Wingolfia
Discovery
Discovered by K. Reinmuth
Discovery site Heidelberg
Discovery date 14 January 1942
Designations
MPC designation 1556
1942 AA
Orbital characteristics[1]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 74.01 yr (27033 days)
Aphelion 3.7997873 AU (568.44009 Gm)
Perihelion 3.0540727 AU (456.88277 Gm)
3.426930 AU (512.6614 Gm)
Eccentricity 0.1088021
6.34 yr (2317.2 d)
37.119429°
 9m 19.305s / day
Inclination 15.74706°
91.59647°
269.54955°
Earth MOID 2.10504 AU (314.910 Gm)
Jupiter MOID 1.73408 AU (259.415 Gm)
Jupiter Tisserand parameter 3.071
Physical characteristics
Mean radius
14.325 ± 1.1 km
10 h (0.42 d)
0.1297 ± 0.023
10.55

    1556 Wingolfia (1942 AA) is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on January 14, 1942, by K. Reinmuth at Heidelberg. The discoverer named it after the German Studentenverbindung Heidelberger Wingolf.

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