(6528) Boden Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 21 March 1993 by UESAC at La Silla.
Boden, a city in the province of Norrbotten in northern Sweden, is the birthplace of Mats Lindgren, one of the discoverers of this object. The Boden fortress, located inside the gently sloping wooded hills surrounding the city, was in the early 1900s a part of Sweden's northern line of defense.Naming citation (19991123/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
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Where Boden is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Boden is 2.64 au from the Sun and 3.52 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 6528 |
| Provisional designation | 1993 FL24 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.96 km (#12,834 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.339 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.28 |
| Orbital period | 3.39 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.25 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.86 – 2.65 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.174 |
| Inclination | 3.06° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.856 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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