4354 Euclides

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4354 Euclides is a main-belt asteroid, discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Tom Gehrels at the Palomar Observatory[1]. It is named after the Greek mathematician Euclid.

[edit] Orbital data

  • Major Semiaxis: 2.7984280 AU
  • Eccentricity: 0.20649284
  • Inclination of orbit: 7.41695 degree (equinox 2000.0)
  • Perihelion length: 242.84638 degree (equinox 2000.0)
  • Longitude of Ascending Node: 193.10056 degree (equinox 2000.0)[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ JPL Small-Body Database, retrieved November 14, 2006
  2. ^ Associação Nacional de Observação Astronómica (Portuguese), retrieved November 14, 2006
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