(10733) George Sand

Asteroid (10733) George Sand
Properties of the orbit ( animation ) Epoch:  December 9, 2014 ( JD 2,457,000.5)
Orbit type	Main belt asteroid
Asteroid family	Koronis family
Major semi-axis	2.9049  AU
eccentricity	0.0825
Perihelion - aphelion	2.6653 AU - 3.1446 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane	2.9831 °
Length of the ascending node	135.2736 °
Argument of the periapsis	287.1592 °
Sidereal period	4.95 a
Mean orbital velocity	17.47 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness	13.4 mag
history
Explorer	Eric Walter Elst
Date of discovery	February 11, 1988
Another name	1988 CP 1 , 1992 YQ 3
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(10733) George Sand is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 11 February 1988 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory ( IAU code 809) in Chile was discovered. The first sightings of the asteroid had already been made on January 18, 1988 at the Rožen Observatory in Bulgaria.

The asteroid is a member of the Koronis family, a group of asteroids named after (158) Koronis .

(10733) Georgesand was named on March 20, 2000 after the French writer Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin de Francueil (1804–1876), who published numerous novels and socially critical articles under the pseudonym George Sand .

See also

• List of asteroids

Web links

• (10733) Georgesand in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
• (10733) Georgesand in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
• Discovery Circumstances of (10733) Georgesand according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ (10733) Georgesand at the IAU Minor Planet Center (English)