(8853) Gerdlehmann Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 9 April 1991 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg.

Named in honor of Gerhard Lehmann (b. 1960), an amateur astronomer who with Jens Kandler measured some 70 precise positions of minor planets and comets from photographic plates obtained at Drebach. Among the 1500 positions he has derived after switching to CCD equipment in 1994 are some for the 1998 opposition of this object. The Drebach positions have made more than 30 Tautenburg objects appropriate for numbering. A teacher of physics and astronomy, Lehmann is also a popularizer of astronomy and since 1997 the head of the minor planets section of the Vereinigung der Sternfreunde.Naming citation (19981208/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Gerdlehmann is today

Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Gerdlehmann is 2.46 au from the Sun and 2.28 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number	8853
Provisional designation	1991 GC10
Orbit class	Main-belt Asteroid
Absolute magnitude (H)	14.91
Orbital period	3.43 years
Semi-major axis	2.27 au
Perihelion – aphelion	2.06 – 2.48 au
Eccentricity	0.0918
Inclination	5.30°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)	1.09 au

Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.

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