(7622) Pergolesi

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Asteroid
(7622) Pergolesi
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  May 23, 2014 ( JD 2,456,800.5)
Orbit type Main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis 2.3173  AU
eccentricity 0.0916
Perihelion - aphelion 2.1051 AU - 2.5296 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 3.0748 °
Length of the ascending node 58.8258 °
Argument of the periapsis 334.3643 °
Sidereal period 3.53 a
Mean orbital velocity 19.56 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness 15.1 mag
history
Explorer Cornelis Johannes van Houten ,
Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld ,
Tom Gehrels
Date of discovery September 24, 1960
Another name 6624 PL , 1978 WQ 2
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(7622) Pergolesi is an asteroid of the main belt that 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) .

It was named on October 16, 1997 after the Italian organist and composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–1736), who worked as Kapellmeister in Naples and Rome and whose intermezzo La serva padrona as the forerunner of the opera buffa at a performance in Paris on 1. August 1752 brought the long-lasting discussions about the primacy of French or Italian music to extremes and led to a heated debate which, as the Buffonist dispute, reached into the baroque period .

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