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Discovery
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| Discovered by | Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels |
| Discovery site | Palomar Observatory |
| Discovery date | October 17, 1960 |
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Designations
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| MPC designation | 7805 |
| Alternate name(s) | 7610 P-L |
| Epoch May 14, 2008 | |
| Ap | 2.5800643 |
| Peri | 1.9685861 |
| Eccentricity | 0.1344307 |
| Orbital period | 1252.7871033 |
| Mean anomaly | 127.05032 |
| Inclination | 4.27014 |
| Longitude of ascending node | 115.71841 |
| Argument of peri | 77.34857 |
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Physical characteristics
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| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.4 |
7805 Moons (7610 P-L) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 17, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory. It is named in memory of Michèle Moons (1951-1998), who worked on celestial mechanics while at the department of mathematics of Facultés Universitaires N. D. de la Paix, Namur, Belgium[1].