| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Gyula Strommer |
| Discovery site | Budapest |
| Discovery date | 27 August 1940 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 1537 |
|
Named after
|
Transylvania |
| 1940 QA | |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 112.44 yr (41068 days) |
| Aphelion | 3.9667225 AU (593.41324 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 2.1314205 AU (318.85597 Gm) |
| 3.049071 AU (456.1345 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.3009608 |
| 5.32 yr (1944.7 d) | |
| 70.062131° | |
| 0° 11m 6.431s / day | |
| Inclination | 3.857786° |
| 230.12903° | |
| 148.00187° | |
| Earth MOID | 1.13351 AU (169.571 Gm) |
| Jupiter MOID | 1.51221 AU (226.223 Gm) |
| Jupiter Tisserand parameter | 3.163 |
| Physical characteristics | |
|
Mean radius
|
6.885±0.75 km |
| 12 h (0.50 d) | |
| 0.1619±0.041 | |
| 12.4 | |
1537 Transylvania (1940 QA) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 27, 1940, by Gyula Strommer at Budapest.
It was a lost asteroid until Leif Kahl Kristensen at Aarhus University rediscovered it along with 452 Hamiltonia along with numerous other small objects in 1981