(8235) Fragonard
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Asteroid (8235) Fragonard |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Clarissa family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3890 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1190 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.1046 AU - 2.6733 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.9126 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 200.7092 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 205.9626 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.69 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.27 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.6 mag |
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| Explorer |
Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld , Tom Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | September 24, 1960 |
| Another name | 2096 PL , 1993 PZ 4 |
| Source: Unless otherwise stated, the data comes from JPL Small-Body Database Browser . The affiliation to an asteroid family is automatically determined from the AstDyS-2 database . Please also note the note on asteroid items. | |
(8235) Fragonard is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on September 24, 1960 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld . The discovery came about 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 .
The asteroid belongs to the Clarissa family, a group of asteroids named after (302) Clarissa .
(8235) Fragonard was named on April 2, 1999 after the French painter , draftsman and etcher of the Rococo Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806), who, along with François Boucher and Antoine Watteau, is one of the three masters of the French Rococo.
See also
Web links
- (8235) Fragonard in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- Asteroid Fragonard in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)
- Asteroid Fragonard: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family membership of (8235) Fragonard in the AstDyS-2 database (English)