7805 Moons
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| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels |
| Discovery site | Palomar Observatory |
| Discovery date | October 17, 1960 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 7805 |
| Alternative names | 7610 P-L |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch May 14, 2008 | |
| Aphelion | 2.5800643 |
| Perihelion | 1.9685861 |
| Eccentricity | 0.1344307 |
| Orbital period | 1252.7871033 |
| Mean anomaly | 127.05032 |
| Inclination | 4.27014 |
| Longitude of ascending node | 115.71841 |
| Argument of perihelion | 77.34857 |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.4 |
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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]
References
- ↑ JPL Small-Body Database Browser on 7805 Moons http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=7805+Moons
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