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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