(12526) de Coninck

Asteroid (12526) de Coninck
Properties of the orbit ( animation ) Epoch: December 9, 2014 ( JD 2,457,000.5)
Orbit type	Main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis	2.3604 AU
eccentricity	0.1857
Perihelion - aphelion	1.9221 AU - 2.7987 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane	0.9119 °
Length of the ascending node	59.0117 °
Argument of the periapsis	198.0426 °
Sidereal period	3.63 a
Mean orbital velocity	19.38 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness	15.5 mag
history
Explorer	Eric Walter Elst
Date of discovery	April 25, 1998
Another name	1998 HZ ₁₄₇ , 1991 NK ₉ , 3384 T-3
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(12526) de Coninck is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 25 April 1998 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 asteroid had already been sighted in July 1991 under the provisional name 1991 NK9 at the same observatory.

(12526) de Coninck was named on September 28, 2004 after the Flemish poet and critic Herman de Coninck (1944-1997).

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