(15808) Zelter Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 3 April 1994 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg.
Composer Carl Friedrich Zelter (1758-1834) set Goethe's poems to music and wrote songs for male choirs. As director of the Berliner “Singakademie” beginning in 1800, he performed in particular the music of Bach. He founded in Berlin the first “Liedertafel”, the prototype for choral societies in cities and towns around the world.Naming citation (20001013/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Zelter is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Zelter is 3.13 au from the Sun and 2.34 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 15808 |
| Provisional designation | 1994 GF10 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 5.50 km (#9,713 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.280 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.54 |
| Orbital period | 4.90 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.89 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.64 – 3.13 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0855 |
| Inclination | 1.32° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.63 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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Also discovered on 3 April 1994
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