(11709) Eudoxus

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Asteroid
(11709) Eudoxus
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  July 31, 2016 ( JD 2,457,600.5)
Orbit type Main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis 2.6039  AU
eccentricity 0.1096
Perihelion - aphelion 2.3184 AU - 2.8894 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 2.7616 °
Length of the ascending node 193.2363 °
Argument of the periapsis 98.5746 °
Sidereal period 4.20 a
Mean orbital velocity 18.45 km / s
Physical Properties
Rotation period 2.64 h
Absolute brightness 14.7 mag
history
Explorer Paul G. Comba
Date of discovery April 27, 1998
Another name 1998 HF 20 , 1978 US 7
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(11709) Eudoxos is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 27 April 1998 by the American Italo- astronomer Paul G. Comba at Prescott Observatory ( IAU code south 684) of Prescott in Arizona was discovered.

The asteroid was named on November 23, 1999 after Eudoxos of Knidos (approx. 395 – approx. 340 BC), a Greek mathematician , astronomer , geographer , doctor , philosopher and legislator of antiquity .

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