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Designations
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| MPC designation | 11779 |
| Named after | Frits Zernike |
| Alternate name(s) | 4197 T-3 |
| Epoch May 14, 2008 | |
| Ap | 2.9145100 |
| Peri | 2.3312228 |
| Eccentricity | 0.1111927 |
| Orbital period | 1551.5389564 |
| Mean anomaly | 88.23339 |
| Inclination | 4.68043 |
| Longitude of ascending node | 69.70700 |
| Argument of peri | 290.95982 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.3 |
11779 Zernike (4197 T-3) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 16, 1977, by Cornelis Johannes van Houten and I. van Houten.[1]