Discovery and designation
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Discovery site | Palomar Observatory |
Discovery date | September 24, 1960 |
Designations
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MPC designation | 4847 |
Named after | Akhenaten |
Alternate name(s) | 6787 P-L |
Epoch May 14, 2008 | |
Ap | 2.3595207 |
Peri | 1.9732295 |
Eccentricity | 0.0891561 |
Orbital period | 1164.6593063 |
Mean anomaly | 102.78859 |
Inclination | 0.85611 |
Longitude of ascending node | 125.42373 |
Argument of peri | 102.51045 |
Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.9 |
4847 Amenhotep (6787 P-L) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.
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