18653 Christagünt

18653 Christagünt

Name
Name	Christagünt
Designation	1998 FW15
Discovery
Discoverer	Jens Rothermel
Discovery date	March 28, 1998
Discovery site	Starkenburg Observatory
Orbital elements
Epoch October 27, 2007 (JDCT 2454400.5)
Eccentricity (e)	0.1649952
Semimajor axis (a)	2.3866833 AU
Perihelion (q)	1.9928920 AU
Aphelion (Q)	2.7804746 AU
Orbital period (P)	3.69 a
Inclination (i)	10.45416°
Longitude of the ascending node (Ω)	59.63770°
Argument of Perihelion (ω)	141.86794°
Mean anomaly (M)	259.62391°

18653 Christagünt is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1346.7612412 days (3.69 years).^[1] It has an average orbital speed of 19.28272598 km/s.

The asteroid was discovered on March 28, 1998 at the Starkenburg Observatory.

This asteroid is named after Christa and Günter Rothermel, the parents of the discoverer.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "JPL Small-Body Database Browser". NASA. http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=18653. Retrieved 2008-04-07.