19139 Apian
Encyclopedia
19139 Apian is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on April 6, 1989 by F. Borngen at the astronomical observatory of the Thuringian State Observatory Tautenburg
, Germany
.
Apian is named after the German humanist Peter Apian. The name applies as official international standard and is registered at the International Astronomical Union
(IAU).
Asteroid belt
The asteroid belt is the region of the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets...
asteroid
Asteroid
Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...
discovered on April 6, 1989 by F. Borngen at the astronomical observatory of the Thuringian State Observatory Tautenburg
Karl Schwarzschild Observatory
The Karl-Schwarzschild-Observatorium is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the institute of Thüringer Landessternwarte ’Karl Schwarzschild’ Tautenburg. In 1992 it was acquired by the state of Thuringia...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
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Apian is named after the German humanist Peter Apian. The name applies as official international standard and is registered at the International Astronomical Union
International Astronomical Union
The International Astronomical Union IAU is a collection of professional astronomers, at the Ph.D. level and beyond, active in professional research and education in astronomy...
(IAU).
External links
- Asteroid Apian: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Apian in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the NASA at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA