(10970) de Zeeuw

Asteroid (10970) de Zeeuw
Properties of the orbit ( animation ) Epoch: April 27, 2019 ( JD 2,458,600.5)
Orbit type	Middle main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis	2.7213 AU
eccentricity	0.1306
Perihelion - aphelion	2.3660 AU - 3.0766 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane	1.8686 °
Length of the ascending node	6.6577 °
Argument of the periapsis	312.7963 °
Time of passage of the perihelion	March 13, 2018
Sidereal period	4.49 a
Mean orbital velocity	18.06 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness	13.7 mag
history
Explorer	Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld , Tom Gehrels
Date of discovery	29th September 1973
Another name	1079 T-2 , 1991 RQ ₈ , 1991 RX ₈
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(10970) de Zeeuw is an asteroid of the central main belt that was discovered on September 29, 1973 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld . The discovery was made during the 2nd Trojan survey, during which Tom Gehrels surveyed field plates recorded with the 120 cm Oschin Schmidt telescope of the Palomar observatory at the University of Leiden , 13 years after the start of the Palomar-Leiden- Surveys .

The asteroid was named on February 19, 2006 after the Dutch astronomer Tim de Zeeuw , who was Scientific Director of the Leiden Observatory and has been Director General of the European Southern Observatory in Chile since 2007 .

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