553 Kundry Explained

Minorplanet:yes
Background:
  1. D6D6D6
553 Kundry
Mpc Name:(553) Kundry
Pronounced:in German ˈkʊndʁyː/
Alt Names:1904 PP; 1932 CL;
1957 UB
Discovered:27 December 1904
Epoch:31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Eccentricity:0.11035
Semimajor:2.2305AU
Perihelion:1.9843AU
Aphelion:2.4766abbr=onNaNabbr=on
Period:3.33 yr (1216.7 d)
Inclination:5.3899°
Asc Node:72.378°
Arg Peri:354.515°
Mean Motion: / day
Orbit Ref:[1]
Observation Arc:111.31 yr (40655 d)
Uncertainty:0
Abs Magnitude:12.1
Rotation:12.605abbr=onNaNabbr=on

553 Kundry is an S-type asteroidhttps://web.archive.org/web/20061201092811/http://www.psi.edu/pds/resource/taxonomy.html belonging to the Flora family in the Main Belt. Its rotation period is 12.605 hourshttps://archive.today/20060614093519/http://www.psi.edu/pds/archive/lc.html.

Like a number of asteroids discovered by Max Wolf around this time (1904), it is named after a female character in opera, in this case from Richard Wagner's Parsifal.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 553 Kundry (1904 PP) . . . 5 May 2016.