2796 Kron
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Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Edward L. G. Bowell[1]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Anderson Mesa Station[2]
- Named after: Gerald Kron[3]
- Follows: 2795 Lepage[4]
- Followed by: 2797 Teucer[5]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[6]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[7]
- Provisional designation: 1976 HL[8], 1980 EC[9]
- Time of discovery or invention: March 13, 1980[10]
- Significant event: naming[11]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.11[12], 0.1112958[13], 0.1124730140745558[14]
- Absolute magnitude: 12.1[15], 12.27[16]
- Orbital inclination: 14.00095 degree[17], 14.01416265686384 degree[18]
- Orbital period: 4.3 years[19], 1568.961434363667 day[20]
- Rotation period: 22.99 hour[21]
- Longitude of ascending node: 158.42649 degree[22], 158.3557069869965 degree[23]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.6436158 astronomical unit[24], 2.642464903409488 astronomical unit[25]
- Apoapsis: 2.938 astronomical unit[26], 2.939670895682183 astronomical unit[27]
- Periapsis: 2.3493925 astronomical unit[28], 2.345258911136793 astronomical unit[29]
- Argument of periapsis: 55.64991 degree[30], 54.54128394192703 degree[31]
- Mean anomaly: 354.94829 degree[32], 186.5161774230158 degree[33]
- Diameter: 8.561 km[34]
- Albedo: 0.29[35]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[36]
- Time of periapsis: 2461756.58174197 Julian day[37]