773 Irmintraud is a minor planet that orbits the Sun between the planets Mars and Jupiter. Discovered by German astronomer Franz Kaiser at Heidelberg, Germany, on December 22, 1913, the planetoid was named for Irmtraud, an old German woman's name that appears frequently in old songs and sagas. This D-type asteroid's previous designation was 1913 TV. The 773 Irmintraud asteroid is a likely source of the Tagish Lake meteorite which landed in Canada on January 18, 2000.
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