Anne Frank Memorial Tree & Asteroid 5535 Annefrank - Bradford, UK
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dtrebilc
N 53° 48.680 W 001° 46.330
30U E 580845 N 5963230
This memorial is dedicated to Anne Frank, the Dutch-Jewish diarist who died in a concentration camp. The tree is a sapling taken from a tree outside the house where Anne hid before being captured. The asteroid was photographed by Stardust in 2002.
Waymark Code: WMQACQ
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/22/2016
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Anne Frank
"Annelies Marie Frank (12 June 1929 – February 1945) was a German-born diarist and writer. She is one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Her diary, The Diary of a Young Girl, which documents her life in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II, is one of the world's most widely known books and has been the basis for several plays and films." These details were extracted from this
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The Anne Frank tree sapling
"The Anne Frank tree was a horse-chestnut tree in the city center of Amsterdam that was featured in Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl. Anne Frank described the tree from The Annexe, the building where she and her family were hiding from the Nazis during World War II. Over the years, the tree deteriorated significantly due to both a fungus and a moth infestation...
...On 23 August 2010, the tree was blown down by high winds during a storm, breaking off approximately 1 metre (3.3 ft) above ground...
...On the 25th of February 2015, this sapling was planted in Lister Park, Bradford, UK." These details extracted from this
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Asteroid 5535 Annefrank
"5535 Annefrank is an inner main-belt asteroid, and member of the Augusta family. It was discovered by Karl Reinmuth at Heidelberg State Observatory in 1942. In 1995 it was named after Anne Frank, the Dutch-Jewish diarist who died in a concentration camp. The asteroid was used as a target to practice the flyby technique that the Stardust space probe would later use on the comet Wild 2.
Annefrank orbits among the main-belt asteroids, with its shortest axis aligned roughly normal to its orbital plane.
On November 2, 2002, the Stardust space probe flew past Annefrank at a distance of 3079 km. Its images show the asteroid to be 6.6 × 5.0 × 3.4 km, twice as big as previously thought, shaped like a triangular prism, with several visible impact craters. From the photographs, the albedo of Annefrank was computed to be between 0.18 and 0.24. Preliminary analysis of the Stardust imagery suggests that Annefrank may be a contact binary, although other possible explanations exist for its observed shape.
Later ground based lightcurve data was used in an attempt to measure Annefrank's rotational period. Their data resulted in possible rotational periods of 0.5, 0.63 or 0.95 days, with 0.63 days fitting the data best. The lightcurve data also suggests that the asteroid is not Lambertian, meaning that surface features, such as shadows from boulders and craters, play a role in the object's perceived brightness and not just the asteroid's relative size when seen from that orientation."
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