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Discovery and designation
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| Discovered by | Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels |
| Discovery site | Palomar Observatory |
| Discovery date | September 29, 1973 |
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Designations
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| MPC designation | 7266 |
| Alternate name(s) | 4270 T-2 |
| Epoch May 14, 2008 | |
| Ap | 2.7914133 |
| Peri | 2.0981739 |
| Eccentricity | 0.1417787 |
| Orbital period | 1396.2453025 |
| Mean anomaly | 154.02449 |
| Inclination | 2.88161 |
| Longitude of ascending node | 50.74381 |
| Argument of peri | 174.34633 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.0 |
7266 Trefftz (4270 T-2) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 29, 1973 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory. It is named after the mathematician and physicist Eleonore Trefftz (born in Aachen in 1920).[1][2]