Starkenburg-Sternwarte  (Observatory Code 611)

Starkenburg-Observatory discoveries of Minor-Planets

If you want to observe one of the discoveries of the Starkenburg-Sternwarte Heppenheim, this page will help you to find important follow-up informations.

Other observers also have their own follow-up pages, check out this list of links.

A PDF document describing the use of the MPES is available.

Information on any known problems with this service is available.

Astrometric observations of any of the following objects should be sent directly to mpc@cfa.harvard.edu. Updated orbits will be available automatically through this page.

Display ephemerides or summary

The following objects are available:

2003 SM15 discoverer Felix Hormuth

2003 SN15 discoverer Felix Hormuth

2003 SO15 discoverer Felix Hormuth

2002 XW37 discoverers Matthias Busch, Rainer Kresken, Erwin Schwab

2001 VA2 discoverers Reiner Stoss, Stefan Kraus

2000 YY7 discoverer Reiner Stoss

2000 YZ7 discoverer Reiner Stoss

1999 UP1 discoverers Matthias Busch, Lothar Kurtze, Sven Kluegl, Erwin Schwab, Reiner Stoss

1999 RT28 discoverers Matthias Busch, Sven Kluegl

(12053) Turtlestar discoverers Matthias Busch, Karin Sonneberg, Wolfgang Ernst, Lothar Kurtze

(12057) Alfredsturm discoverers Reiner Stoss, Peter Geffert, Erwin Schwab, Jens Rothermel

(14080) Heppenheim discoverers Reiner Stoss, Karin Sonneberg, Wolfgang Ernst

(15397) Ksoari discoverers Matthias Busch, Reiner Stoss, Wolfgang Ernst, Lothar Kurtze

(16809) Galapagos discoverers Lothar Kurtze, Matthias Busch

(16969) Helamuda discoverers Reiner Stoss, Peter Geffert, Matthias Busch

(17855) Geffert discoverers Matthias Busch, Alexandra Busch, Erwin Schwab

(18567) Segenthau discoverer Reiner Stoss

(18610) Arthurdent discoverer Felix Hormuth

(18653) Christagunt discoverers Reiner Stoss, Felix Hormuth, Jens Rothermel

(18893) 2000 GH1 discoverers Matthias Busch, Reiner Stoss

(21663) Banat discoverers Reiner Stoss, Matthias Busch

(24168) Hexlein discoverers Matthias Busch, Rainer Kresken, Reiner Stoss

(27984) Herminefranz discoverer Reiner Stoss

(31984) 2000 HR23 discoverers Matthias Busch, Peter Geffert, Rainer Kresken, Reiner Stoss

(33863) Elfriederwin discoverers Erwin Schwab, Reiner Stoss

(35357) 1997 SX9 discoverers Reiner Stoss, Matthias Busch

(38270) 1999 RJ35 discoverers Matthias Busch, Alexandra Busch, Peter Geffert, Reiner Stoss

(38681) 2000 QK6 discoverers Matthias Busch, Sven Kluegl, Reiner Stoss

(40764) Gerhardiser discoverers Matthias Busch, Erwin Schwab, Sven Kluegl, Reiner Stoss

(40995) 1999 UC4 discoverers Matthias Busch, Sven Kluegl, Reiner Stoss

(47083) 1998 YG22 discoverers Reiner Stoss, Matthias Busch

(56561) Jaimenomen discoverers Reiner Stoss, Erwin Schwab

(58896) 1998 JE4 discoverers Matthias Busch, Alexandra Busch, Peter Geffert, Wolfgang Ernst, Jens Rothermel

(60006) 1999 TB16 discoverers Matthias Busch, Erwin Schwab, Sven Kluegl, Reiner Stoss

(60175) 1999 VQ1 discoverer Reiner Stoss

(66480) 1999 RW33 discoverers Matthias Busch, Alexandra Busch, Erwin Schwab, Sven Kluegl, Reiner Stoss

(68980) 2002 RP181 discoverers Matthias Busch, Rainer Kresken

(72057) 2000 YS9 discoverers Matthias Busch, Albert Heller, Stefan Kraus, Reiner Stoss

(89263) 2001 VZ1 discoverers Stefan Kraus, Reiner Stoss

(105250) 2000 QJ6 discoverers Matthias Busch, Sven Kluegl, Reiner Stoss

(121232) Zerin discoverers Matthias Busch, Alexandra Busch, Peter Geffert, Reiner Stoss

(137466) 1999 UB4 discoverers Reiner Stoss, Matthias Busch, Sven Kluegl

(157894) 1999 TK16 discoverers Matthias Busch, Sven Kluegl, Erwin Schwab

(178543) 1999 VP1 discoverers Reiner Stoss, Rainer Kresken

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Format for elements output:

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If you select 8-line MPC format, you may display the residual block for the objects selected:

Show residuals blocks. Show only residual lines containing observations from code . If you select 8-line MPC format the elements will be displayed with the ephemerides. If you select any format other than 8-line MPC format, only the elements are returned. In such cases your browser should download the elements file and save it to your local disk.

Supplementary Information

Summary
The summary lists the current J2000.0 coordinates, visual magnitude and solar elongation of the selected minor planets, as well as information on the date of last observation (where available), forthcoming opposition data and details on the latest published orbit. The opposition data lists the date of the next opposition and the declination and visual magnitude at that time.

Formats
The list of available formats for the orbital elements was correct at the time this document was prepared. It is possible that the Minor Planet Center now supports futher formats. If you select the summary option, any newly supported formats will be listed.

Elements
The elements supplied are the latest published elements for the specified objects. Elements will be found even if the designation you enter is a non-principal designation in an identification or if the object has been numbered.

Ephemerides can be supplied for objects with only Väisälä elements, but the elements themselves are not supplied.

Ephemerides
The ephemerides supplied for minor planets and comets are perturbed (if the orbits were computed with perturbations) and can be generated over the time period 1900 to 2040. Objects with unperturbed orbit solutions will return unperturbed ephemerides. Objects must be identified in images by their motion, not by their apparent closeness to a predicted position.

The time-scale of the supplied ephemerides is UTC.

If you desire a topocentric ephemeris, enter your observatory code in the appropriate box. When local circumstances are displayed, the azimuths are reckoned westwards from the south meridian.

As an aide-mémoire, the packed form of the object's designation (as used on the astrometric observation record) is displayed immediately above the ephemeris.

This service utilises the Minor Planet Ephemeris Service, courtesy of the IAU's Minor Planet Center. It has been made possible by Process Software Corporation, and their excellent VMS Web server, Purveyor.

The calculations will be performed on the Tamkin Foundation Computing Network.