(3201) Sijthoff

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Asteroid
(3201) Sijthoff
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Orbit type Main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis 2.2581  AU
eccentricity 0.0879
Perihelion - aphelion 2.0596 AU - 2.4567 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 2.989 °
Sidereal period 3,393 a
Mean orbital velocity 19.82 km / s
Physical Properties
Medium diameter ? km
Albedo ?
Rotation period ? H
Absolute brightness 13.5 likes
Spectral class ?
history
Explorer CJ and I. van Houten-Groeneveld ,
T. Gehrels
Date of discovery September 24, 1960
Another name 6560 PL, 1969 FE, 1979 DP
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(3201) Sijthoff is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on September 24, 1960 by the Dutch research team Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels as part of the Palomar-Leiden Survey .

The Dutch publisher Albert Willem Sijthoff , who founded the Sijthoff Planetarium in The Hague in 1934, was honored with the naming of the asteroid .

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