10427 Klinkenberg
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Discovery and designation
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Discovered by | C. J. van Houten and I. van Houten-Groeneveld |
Discovery site | Palomar |
Discovery date | September 24, 1960 |
Designations
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MPC designation | 10427 |
Alternative names[1] | 2017 P-L |
Epoch May 14, 2008 | |
Ap | 2.7210857 |
Peri | 1.7457353 |
Eccentricity | 0.2183545 |
Orbital period | 1219.1334873 |
Mean anomaly | 131.80237 |
Inclination | 2.25210 |
Longitude of ascending node | 262.52217 |
Argument of peri | 55.58770 |
Absolute magnitude | 14.6 |
10427 Klinkenberg (2017 P-L) is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by husband and wife team Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld from plates taken at Palomar by Tom Gehrels. It is named after Dirk Klinkenberg, an eighteenth century Dutch mathematician and astronomer.