(9682) Gravesande

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Asteroid
(9682) Gravesande
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  4th September 2017 ( JD 2,458,000.5)
Orbit type Inner main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis 2.1560  AU
eccentricity 0.0216
Perihelion - aphelion 2.1095 AU - 2.2025 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 2.7668 °
Length of the ascending node 260.6655 °
Argument of the periapsis 20.0995 °
Sidereal period 3.17 a
Mean orbital velocity 20.28 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness 15.5 mag
history
Explorer Cornelis Johannes van Houten ,
Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld ,
Tom Gehrels
Date of discovery September 24, 1960
Another name 4073 PL , 1997 EK 49
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(9682) Gravesande is an asteroid of the main inner 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 celestial body was named on March 9, 2001 after the Dutch astronomer , philosopher , physicist and mathematician Willem Jacob 's Gravesande (1688–1742), whose work had a strong influence on experimental physics in the eighteenth century.

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