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Discovery and designation
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Designations
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| MPC designation | 11298 |
| Named after | André Gide |
| Alternate name(s) | 1992 RE6 |
| Epoch May 14, 2008 | |
| Ap | 3.0265956 |
| Peri | 2.7497884 |
| Eccentricity | 0.0479205 |
| Orbital period | 1792.8234175 |
| Mean anomaly | 351.84966 |
| Inclination | 3.22942 |
| Longitude of ascending node | 75.91926 |
| Argument of peri | 0.93308 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.1 |
11298 Gide (1992 RE6) is a main-belt asteroid named for André Gide (1869–1951), French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947.[1]