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10252 Heidigraf

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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

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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.

References

10252 Heidigraf Wikipedia


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