(9344) Klopstock Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 12 September 1991 by Borngen, F., Schmadel, L. D. at Tautenburg.
Named for Friedrich Gottfried Klopstock (1724-1803), one of the most famous German poets between the late Baroque and the classical period. He studied theology in Jena and Leipzig. In his poems he proclaimed a new mentality-the Age of Sensibility. Klopstock's “Messias”, a cycle of 20 religious poems, is the first great epic of the Low High German literature. His inspired odes have love, friendship, fatherland and the experience of nature as their subjects.Naming citation (19990202/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Klopstock is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Klopstock is 2.45 au from the Sun and 3.12 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 9344 |
| Provisional designation | 1991 RB4 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 17.1 km (#2,657 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0116 |
| Rotation period | 5.84 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.34 |
| Orbital period | 3.63 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.36 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.16 – 2.57 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0884 |
| Inclination | 5.03° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.17 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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