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686 Gersuind

main-belt asteroid

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ156493 ↗
Source-derived summary

686 Gersuind is a minor planet orbiting the Sun that was discovered by German astronomer August Kopff on 15 August 1909 from Heidelberg. It was named after a character in Gerhart Hauptmann's play Gersuind.

This object is the namesake of a family of 40–207 asteroids that share similar spectral properties and orbital elements; hence they may have arisen from the same collisional event. All members have a relatively high orbital inclination.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1909—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Gersuind, main-belt and asteroid can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as main-belt asteroid. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “686 Gersuind” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.