7167 Laupheim

Infobox Minor Planet
name=7167 Laupheim
discoverer=Carolyn S. Shoemaker, Eugene Shoemaker
discovery_date=12 October, 1985
category=
designations=1985 TD3
epoch=JD
semimajor=3.1364 AU
perihelion=2.5011 AU
aphelion=3.7718 AU
period=5.555 a
speed=16.82 km/s
eccentricity=0.2026
inclination=23.44°
arg_peri=
asc_node=
mean_anomaly=
dimensions=
mass=
density=
gravity=
escape_velocity=
rotation=
spectral_class=
abs_mag=11.894
albedo=
temperature=

7167 Laupheim is an asteroid in the Main belt orbiting the Sun. It was discovered in 1985 at the Palomar Observatory by Carolyn S. Shoemaker and Eugene Shoemaker.

After visiting the public observatory in Laupheim, Germany, in 1998, Carolyn Shoemaker was so enthusiastic by the work done by this institution that she had asteroid 1985 TD3 named after the city on 4 May 1999.

External links

* [http://www.volkssternwarte-laupheim.de/menu_verein_7167-Verein-23.htm Press release of the public observatory in Laupheim with a photograph of the asteroid ("in German")]