(16243) Rosenbauer Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 4 April 2000 by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa.
Helmut Rosenbauer (b. 1936) was director of the Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy in Katlenburg-Lindau. He was a leader in promoting the Philae lander on the Rosetta spacecraft to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Rosenbauer is PI of the COSAC instrument, designed to measure the comet's surface chemistry.Naming citation (20050721/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Rosenbauer is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Rosenbauer is 2.81 au from the Sun and 2.56 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 16243 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 GO147 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 13.5 km (#3,546 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0810 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.08 |
| Orbital period | 5.61 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.16 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.54 – 3.77 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.194 |
| Inclination | 17.6° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.62 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Helmut
All asteroids named after someone called Helmut
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