Key facts
- Discovered by
- C. Hoffmeister
- Discovery site
- Boyden Obs.
- Discovery date
- 5 June 1959
- Named after
- Cuno Hoffmeister , (astronomer)
- Alternative designations
- 1959 LM · 1986 VT 7 , 1987 MB
- Minor planet category
- Apollo · NEO · PHA , Mars-crosser , Venus-crosser
- Observation arc
- 57.59 yr (21,036 days)
- Aphelion
- 3.2396 AU
- Perihelion
- 0.7248 AU
- Semi major axis
- 1.9822 AU
- Orbital period sidereal
- 2.79 yr (1,019 days)
- Mean anomaly
- 338.28 °
- Mean motion
- 0° 21 11.52 / day
- Inclination
- 6.7051°
- Longitude of ascending node
- 294.90°
- Argument of perihelion
- 236.34°
- Earth moid
- 0.0283 AU · 11 LD
- Mean diameter
- 2.945 ± 0.115 km , 3.73 ± 0.15 , 3.92 km (calculated) , 5.38 km , 5.49 km , 5.618 ± 0.457 km
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Encyclopedic overview
4183 Cuno, provisional designation 1959 LM, is an eccentric, rare-type asteroid, classified as near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group, and measures approximately 4 kilometers in diameter.
It was discovered on 5 June 1959, by German astronomer Cuno Hoffmeister at Boyden Observatory in Bloemfontein, South Africa, and later named in the discoverer's honor.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “4183 Cuno” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.