11755 Paczynski
| Discovery and designation | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | C. J. van Houten, I. van Houten-Groeneveld and T. Gehrels |
| Discovery site | Palomar Observatory |
| Discovery date | September 24, 1960 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 11755 |
Named after | Bohdan Paczyński |
| 2691 P-L | |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch May 14, 2008 | |
| Aphelion | 2.7520262 |
| Perihelion | 2.0129606 |
| Eccentricity | 0.1551034 |
| 1343.2163712 | |
| 112.57870 | |
| Inclination | 2.82999 |
| 32.81067 | |
| 191.72702 | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 14.7 | |
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11755 Paczynski (2691 P-L) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by C. J. van Houten and I. van Houten-Groeneveld on Palomar Schmidt plates taken by T. Gehrels.
Polish-born astrophysicist Bohdan Paczyński (b. 1940), at Princeton University since 1982, is known for his theoretical work on gamma ray bursters---he was an early proponent of their being at cosmological distances---and for leading searches for gravitational lensing by low-mass stars and substellar objects.[1]