(10847) Koch Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 5 January 1995 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg.
The German physician Robert Koch (1843-1910) is the chief founder of the methodology of modern bacteriology. In 1876, he showed that the anthrax bacillus causes an infectious disease. He discovered the tuberculosis and cholera bacilli and studied malaria and sleeping sickness. He won the Nobel prize for medicine in 1905.Naming citation (20000124/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Koch is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Koch is 3.07 au from the Sun and 4.01 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 10847 |
| Provisional designation | 1995 AV4 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 7.12 km (#7,489 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.200 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.5 |
| Orbital period | 5.14 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.98 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.70 – 3.26 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0943 |
| Inclination | 8.97° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.72 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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