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1617 Alschmitt, provisional designation , is an assumed carbonaceous
asteroid An asteroid is a minor planet—an object larger than a meteoroid that is neither a planet nor an identified comet—that orbits within the Solar System#Inner Solar System, inner Solar System or is co-orbital with Jupiter (Trojan asteroids). As ...
from in the outer parts of the
main belt The asteroid belt is a torus-shaped region in the Solar System, centered on the Sun and roughly spanning the space between the orbits of the planets Jupiter and Mars. It contains a great many solid, irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids ...
, approximately 30 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 20 March 1952, by French astronomer Louis Boyer at
Algiers Observatory The Algiers Observatory was built in the late 19th century in the Algiers suburb of Bouzaréah, Algeria, North Africa. It participated in the Astrographic Catalogue project, taking the zone between -2 and +4 degrees to expose 1,260 plates betwe ...
in Algeria, Northern Africa, and named after French astronomer Alfred Schmitt.


Orbit and classification

This asteroid orbits the Sun in the
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External links


Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB)
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Dictionary of Minor Planet Names
Google books

– Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend

– Minor Planet Center * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Alschmitt 001617 Discoveries by Louis Boyer (astronomer) Named minor planets 19520320