(8054) Brentano

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Asteroid
(8054) Brentano
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  December 9, 2014 ( JD 2,457,000.5)
Orbit type Main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis 2.2379  AU
eccentricity 0.1256
Perihelion - aphelion 1.9568 AU - 2.5190 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 2.8215 °
Length of the ascending node 54.6371 °
Argument of the periapsis 334.3977 °
Sidereal period 3.35 a
Mean orbital velocity 19.90 km / s
Physical Properties
Rotation period 623.7705 h
Absolute brightness 14.2 mag
history
Explorer Cornelis Johannes van Houten ,
Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld ,
Tom Gehrels
Date of discovery September 24, 1960
Another name 4581 PL , 1987 VZ
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(8054) Brentano is an asteroid of the main belt , which 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 April 2, 1999 after the German writer Clemens Brentano (1778–1842), who was the main representative of the so-called Heidelberg Romanticism alongside Achim von Arnim , with whom he also published the folk song collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn .

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