657 Gunlöd is a dark
background asteroid orbiting in the intermediate
asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 23 January 1908, by astronomer
August Kopff at the
Heidelberg Observatory
Heidelberg (; Palatine German: ') is a city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914, of which roughly a quarter consisted of students.
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in southwest Germany. It has an
albedo of around 0.042 and a
rotation period
The rotation period of a celestial object (e.g., star, gas giant, planet, moon, asteroid) may refer to its sidereal rotation period, i.e. the time that the object takes to complete a single revolution around its axis of rotation relative to the ...
of 15.7 hours.
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Background asteroids
Gunlod
Gunlod
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