Discovery date 26 March 1971 Discovered 26 March 1971 Orbits Sun Asteroid group Asteroid belt | Observation arc 16214 days (44.39 yr) Absolute magnitude 13.2 Discovery site Palomar Observatory | |
Discovered by C. J. van Houten, I. van Houten-Groeneveld Aphelion 3.05154 AU (456.504 Gm) Perihelion 2.65382 AU (397.006 Gm) Semi-major axis 2.85268 AU (426.755 Gm) Discoverers Tom Gehrels, Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld People also search for 10250 Hellahaasse, Sun, 9511 Klingsor | ||
10252 Heidigraf is a main-belt asteroid. It was discovered on March 26, 1971, by Dutch astronomers Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld on Palomar Schmidt plates taken by Tom Gehrels. Heidigraf is named after Heidi Graf, the retired Head of the ESTEC Communications Office at European Space Agency.
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