110393 Rammstein
110393 Rammstein is a background asteroid in the central part of the asteroid belt, about 3 to 6 kilometers across. It was discovered on 11 October 2001 by French astronomer Jean-Claude Merlin at Le Creusot Observatory in France. The asteroid was named after the German industrial metal band Rammstein, whose name comes from Ramstein Air Base and the 1988 Ramstein air show disaster.
Rammstein orbits the Sun in the central asteroid belt, roughly 2.5 to 2.9 AU from the Sun, completing one orbit every about 4.46 years (1,630 days). Its orbit is slightly elongated (eccentricity ~0.086) and inclined about 12° to the plane of the solar system.
The asteroid is too faint to see with the naked eye. Its brightness has not been measured by major infrared space surveys, and its spectral type remains unknown. Estimates of its size vary with the assumed reflectivity (albedo): about 3 to 6 kilometers in diameter. No rotation period or detailed shape information is currently known.
As of 2006, the official naming citation for 110393 Rammstein was published by the Minor Planet Center.
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