(23473) Voss Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 11 October 1990 by Borngen, F., Schmadel, L. D. at Tautenburg.
Philologist and poet Johann Heinrich Voss (1751-1826) wrote idyllic scenes of civil life, partly in Low German dialect. His major achievements are translations or free renderings of Greek and Roman authors like Homer, Ovid, Virgil and Horace, thereby opening up a new relation with the ancients for his contemporaries.Naming citation (20010705/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Voss is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Voss is 2.28 au from the Sun and 2.57 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 23473 |
| Provisional designation | 1990 TD12 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 6.61 km (#8,107 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0580 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.78 |
| Orbital period | 4.40 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.68 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.15 – 3.21 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.198 |
| Inclination | 2.91° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.16 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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