(7960) Condorcet

Asteroid (7960) Condorcet
Properties of the orbit ( animation ) Epoch: December 9, 2014 ( JD 2,457,000.5)
Orbit type	Main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis	2.1846 AU
eccentricity	0.0737
Perihelion - aphelion	2.0235 AU - 2.3456 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane	3.2448 °
Length of the ascending node	293.9488 °
Argument of the periapsis	296.5443 °
Sidereal period	3.23 a
Mean orbital velocity	20.14 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness	13.8 mag
history
Explorer	Eric Walter Elst
Date of discovery	August 10, 1994
Another name	1994 PW ₁₆ , 1991 TP ₂ , 1993 DM ₁
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(7960) Condorcet is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 10 August 1994 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory ( IAU code in 809) Chile was discovered. The first sightings of the asteroid had already been made in October 1991 under the provisional designation 1991 TP2 at the Thuringian State Observatory Tautenburg (IAU code 033).

(7960) Condorcet was named after the French philosopher , mathematician and politician of the Enlightenment Marquis de Condorcet named (1743-1794).

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