- 7167 Laupheim
Infobox Minor Planet
name=7167 Laupheim
discoverer=Carolyn S. Shoemaker ,Eugene Shoemaker
discovery_date=12 October ,1985
category=
designations=1985 TD3
epoch=JD
semimajor=3.1364 AU
perihelion=2.5011 AU
aphelion=3.7718 AU
period=5.555 a
speed=16.82 km/s
eccentricity=0.2026
inclination=23.44°
arg_peri=
asc_node=
mean_anomaly=
dimensions=
mass=
density=
gravity=
escape_velocity=
rotation=
spectral_class=
abs_mag=11.894
albedo=
temperature=7167 Laupheim is an
asteroid in the Main belt orbiting theSun . It was discovered in 1985 at thePalomar Observatory byCarolyn S. Shoemaker andEugene Shoemaker .After visiting the public observatory in
Laupheim ,Germany , in 1998, Carolyn Shoemaker was so enthusiastic by the work done by this institution that she had asteroid 1985 TD3 named after the city on 4 May 1999.External links
* [http://www.volkssternwarte-laupheim.de/menu_verein_7167-Verein-23.htm Press release of the public observatory in Laupheim with a photograph of the asteroid ("in German")]
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