(14015) Senancour

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Asteroid
(14015) Senancour
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  May 19, 2011 ( JD 2,455,700.5)
Orbit type Main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis 3.1522  AU
eccentricity 0.0934
Perihelion - aphelion 2.8578 AU - 3.4466 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 5.9694 °
Length of the ascending node 156.7011 °
Argument of the periapsis 311.5384 °
Sidereal period 5.60 a
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness 13.5 likes
history
Explorer Eric Walter Elst
Christian Pollas
Date of discovery January 16, 1994
Another name 1994 BD 4 , 1981 UZ 22
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(14015) Senancour is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on January 16, 1994 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst and his French colleague Christian Pollas at the Observatoire de Calern ( observatory code 010) north of the city of Grasse in southern France.

The asteroid was named on January 27, 2013 after the French writer Étienne Pivert de Senancour (1770-1846), a forerunner of Romanticism, whose best-known work is Oberman. Novel in letters is strongly influenced by the ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau .

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