19139 Apian

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discoverer = F. Borngen
discovery_site = Tautenburg
discovered = April 6, 1989
designations = yes
mp_name = 19139
alt_names = 1989 GJ8, 1999 XP18
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epoch = May 14, 2008
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perihelion = 2.3880239
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period = 1517.1503096
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inclination = 8.02821
asc_node = 48.27748
mean_anomaly = 17.10851
arg_peri = 337.81636
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abs_magnitude = 13.3

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).

External links

* [http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/lists/NumberedMPs015001.html Asteroid Apian: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA]
* [http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=Apian Asteroid Apian in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the NASA at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA]