117506 Wildberg
Encyclopedia
117506 Wildberg is a main belt asteroid
. It was discovered by Rolf Apitzsch at the Observatory Wildberg on February 5, 2005. Its provisional name was . It was named after Wildberg
, the hosting city at the northern Black Forest, Germany
. It has an absolute magnitude of 17.0 and an orbital period of 1179.8 days.
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...
. It was discovered by Rolf Apitzsch at the Observatory Wildberg on February 5, 2005. Its provisional name was . It was named after Wildberg
Wildberg
Wildberg is a town in Calw in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The asteroid 117506 Wildberg was named in its honour by its discoverer, the Observatorium Wildberg....
, the hosting city at the northern Black Forest, 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...
. It has an absolute magnitude of 17.0 and an orbital period of 1179.8 days.