(6055) Brunelleschi

Asteroid (6055) Brunelleschi
Properties of the orbit ( animation ) Epoch: May 23, 2014 ( JD 2,456,800.5)
Orbit type	Middle main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis	2.1791 AU
eccentricity	0.1277
Perihelion - aphelion	1.9009 AU - 2.4573 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane	1.7605 °
Length of the ascending node	284.1722 °
Argument of the periapsis	358.8672 °
Sidereal period	3.22 a
Mean orbital velocity	20.17 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness	14.5 mag
history
Explorer	Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld , Tom Gehrels
Date of discovery	October 16, 1977
Another name	2158 T-3 , 1986 LN ₁ , 1989 GM ₄
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(6055) Brunelleschi is an asteroid of the main belt , which was discovered on October 16, 1977 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld . The discovery took place during the 3rd Trojan survey, during which Tom Gehrels surveyed field plates recorded by the 120 cm Oschin Schmidt telescope of the Palomar observatory at the University of Leiden , 17 years after the start of the Palomar-Leiden- Surveys .

The asteroid was named on March 5, 1996 after the architect and sculptor of the Italian early Renaissance Filippo Brunelleschi (1377–1446), who together with Lorenzo Ghiberti constructed the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence . The asteroid of the inner main belt (6054) was named Ghiberti after Lorenzo Ghiberti .

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