| Minorplanet: | yes |
| Background: |
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| 972 Cohnia | |
| Mpc Name: | (972) Cohnia |
| Alt Names: | 1922 LK |
| Discovered: | 18 January 1922 |
| Orbit Ref: | [1] |
| Observation Arc: | 110.24 yr (40266 days) |
| Uncertainty: | 0 |
| Epoch: | 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) |
| Eccentricity: | 0.23487 |
| Semimajor: | 3.0568AU |
| Perihelion: | 2.3388AU |
| Aphelion: | 3.7748abbr=onNaNabbr=on |
| Period: | 5.34 yr (1952.1 d) |
| Inclination: | 8.3709° |
| Asc Node: | 281.530° |
| Arg Peri: | 93.837° |
| Mean Motion: | / day |
| Abs Magnitude: | 9.50 |
| Rotation: | 18.472abbr=onNaNabbr=on |
| Mean Radius: | km |
972 Cohnia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun, one of several such in the asteroid belt. It was discovered on 18 January 1908 by a team in Heidelberg led by Max Wolf. In 2007, lightcurve data showed that Cohnia rotates every 18.472 ± 0.004 hours.[2]
It is named after the German astronomer Fritz Cohn.