(11764) Benbaillaud
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Asteroid (11764) Benbaillaud |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.1949 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0689 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0438 AU - 2.3461 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.7063 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 16.3452 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 19.4812 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.25 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.6 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
CJ van Houten I. van Houten-Groeneveld |
| Date of discovery | September 24, 1960 |
| Another name | 6531 PL , 3070 T-2 |
| Source: Unless otherwise stated, the data comes from JPL Small-Body Database Browser . The affiliation to an asteroid family is automatically determined from the AstDyS-2 database . Please also note the note on asteroid items. | |
(11764) Benbaillaud is an asteroid in the main belt . It was discovered on September 24, 1960 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld . The discovery was made as part of the Palomar-Leiden survey , during which Tom Gehrels examined field plates recorded at the University of Leiden with the 120 cm Oschin Schmidt telescope of the Palomar observatory ( IAU code 675) .
The asteroid was named on September 26, 2007 after the French astronomer Benjamin Baillaud (1848-1934), who was head of the Toulouse Observatory from 1878 to 1907 and then the Paris Observatory until 1926 .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Benbaillaud: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (11764) Benbaillaud in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (11764) Benbaillaud in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).