7971 Meckbach (9002 P-L) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 17 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.The asteroid was named in honor of the German physician Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Meckbach at the Centro Atómico Bariloche (Argentina).
apoapsis (km)
4.26111e+11
orbital period (μ)
1.30387e+08
periapsis (km)
3.44266e+11
absolute magnitude
13.9
discovery date
1960-10-17
discoverer
Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, Tom Gehrels
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