Schubart is asteroid #1911 and also known as 1973 UD. Schubart is an asteroid of the type P or C. Schubart’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 3.99 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.17, a period of revolution of 2 915 days, and an inclination of 1.6 degrees. These parameters are important because Schubart is the head of an asteroid-family. The whole Schubart asteroid-family belongs to the Hilda group, which means the asteroids have stable Keplerian orbits albeit being in a 3:2 orbital resonance with the planet Jupiter. Schubart was discovered by the Swiss astronomer Paul Wild at the Zimmerwald Observatory.

Schubart is named after the German astronomer Joachim Schubart, who was born in 1928 and seems to be still alive. He calculated the orbits of many asteroids and conducted a study on the 3:2 orbital resonance with Jupiter. So making the head of an asteroid-family within the Hilda group a namesake of Schubart precisely is how naming an asteroid should be done. Joachim Schubart also discovered two asteroids, one of them is the asteroid Brocken. Not much more is publicly known on Joachim Schubart, especially nothing on his private life.

The Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union has an entry on the asteroid #1911 or Schubart on its website. This entry states: “Named in honor of Zdenek Sekanina, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, […]” This seems to be a huge, but at least obvious mistake. Whether to consider this in the astrological interpretation of the asteroid Schubart?

The origin of the name Schubart is the obsolete German word Schuhwirt, which was synonymous with Schuhmacher, Schuster = shoemaker. Schubart is only one of several variants of this name. So Schubart could represent the profession of a shoemaker, but this shouldn’t be its main meaning. Schubart should indicate that something is in a state of resonance. Schubart furthermore represents persons with the family-name Schubart.