(9684) Olieslagers

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Asteroid
(9684) Olieslagers
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  4th September 2017 ( JD 2,458,000.5)
Orbit type Main belt asteroid
Asteroid family Hertha family
Major semi-axis 2.4296  AU
eccentricity 0.1386
Perihelion - aphelion 2.0929 AU - 2.7662 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 1.9125 °
Length of the ascending node 203.6342 °
Argument of the periapsis 287.4205 °
Sidereal period 3.79 a
Mean orbital velocity 19.10 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness 14.2 mag
history
Explorer Cornelis Johannes van Houten ,
Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld ,
Tom Gehrels
Date of discovery September 24, 1960
Another name 4113 PL , 1981 EQ 25
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(9684) Olieslagers 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 celestial body was named on July 5, 2001 after the Belgian art and fighter pilot Jan Olieslagers (1883-1942), who carried out the first overland flight between two cities in the Netherlands in 1910.

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