(7507) Israel

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Asteroid
(7507) Israel
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  4th September 2017 ( JD 2,458,000.5)
Orbit type Main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis 2.3349  AU
eccentricity 0.2115
Perihelion - aphelion 1.8409 AU - 2.8288 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 4.2968 °
Length of the ascending node 243.2634 °
Argument of the periapsis 69.0943 °
Sidereal period 3.57 a
Mean orbital velocity 19.49 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness 14.5 mag
history
Explorer Cornelis Johannes van Houten ,
Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld ,
Tom Gehrels
Date of discovery October 17, 1960
Another name 7063 PL , 1974 OC 1 , 1985 SK 2
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(7507) Israel is an asteroid of the main belt , which was discovered on October 17, 1960 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld .

description

The discovery was made as part of the Palomar-Leiden survey , during which Tom Gehrels examined field plates recorded at the University of Leiden with the 120 cm Oschin Schmidt telescope of the Palomar observatory ( IAU code 675) .

It was named on December 14, 1997 after the Dutch astronomer Frank Pieter Israel (* 1946), who works as a professor at the Leiden Observatory at the University of Leiden, on the occasion of his 51st birthday.

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