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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 | October 16, 1977 |
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Designations
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| MPC designation | 7508 |
| Alternate name(s) | 2327 T-3 |
| Epoch May 14, 2008 | |
| Ap | 3.0819316 |
| Peri | 2.5065596 |
| Eccentricity | 0.1029566 |
| Orbital period | 1706.0638675 |
| Mean anomaly | 181.46991 |
| Inclination | 2.62728 |
| Longitude of ascending node | 257.43512 |
| Argument of peri | 140.03416 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.3 |
7508 Icke (2327 T-3) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 16, 1977 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory. It is named after the Dutch cosmologist and theoretical astrophysicist Vincent Icke (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɪkə]).