(6672) Corot

Asteroid (6672) Corot
Properties of the orbit ( animation ) Epoch: 4th September 2017 ( JD 2,458,000.5)
Orbit type	Inner main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis	2.4113 AU
eccentricity	0.2154
Perihelion - aphelion	1.8918 AU - 2.9307 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane	4.8101 °
Length of the ascending node	209.1238 °
Argument of the periapsis	166.5290 °
Sidereal period	3.74 a
Mean orbital velocity	19.18 km / s
Physical Properties
Medium diameter	2.144 (± 0.434) km
Albedo	0.803 (± 0.181)
Rotation period	37.62 h
Absolute brightness	14.5 mag
history
Explorer	Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld , Tom Gehrels
Date of discovery	March 24, 1971
Another name	1213 T-1 , 1980 TZ ₈ , 1984 YQ ₂ , 1991 OP
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(6672) Corot is an asteroid of the main inner belt that was discovered on March 24, 1971 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld . The discovery took place during the 1st Trojan survey, during which Tom Gehrels surveyed field plates recorded by the 120 cm Oschin Schmidt telescope of the Palomar observatory at the University of Leiden , eleven years after the start of the Palomar-Leiden- Surveys .

The asteroid was named after the French landscape painter Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875), who was one of the main representatives of the Barbizon School .

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