(10139) Ronsard

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Asteroid
(10139) Ronsard
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  December 9, 2014 ( JD 2,457,000.5)
Orbit type Main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis 2.3504  AU
eccentricity 0.0269
Perihelion - aphelion 2.2872 AU - 2.4137 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 1,0008 °
Length of the ascending node 57.5522 °
Argument of the periapsis 196.3478 °
Sidereal period 3.60 a
Mean orbital velocity 19.42 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness 14.4 mag
history
Explorer EW Elst
Date of discovery September 19, 1993
Another name 1993 ST 4 , 1974 HS 1 , 1986 TZ 2 , 1992 GA 8
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(10139) Ronsard is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 19 September 1993 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the Observatoire de Calern ( IAU code 010) in the south of France was discovered.

The asteroid was named on July 28, 1999 after the French author Pierre de Ronsard (1524–1585), who is now considered the most important French poet of the second half of the 16th century.

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