Discovery date 24 September 1960 Observation arc 22198 days (60.77 yr) Orbits Sun Discovery site Palomar Observatory MPC designation 11755 | Alternative names 2691 P-L Discovered 24 September 1960 Named after Bohdan Paczyński Asteroid group Asteroid belt | |
Discovered by C. J. van Houten, I. van Houten-Groeneveld and T. Gehrels Aphelion 2.7490988 AU (411.25933 Gm) Perihelion 2.0191137 AU (302.05511 Gm) Discoverers Tom Gehrels, Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld | ||
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.
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