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1743 Schmidt

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Discovery date
  
24 September 1960

Named after
  
Bernhard Schmidt

Discovered
  
24 September 1960

Orbits
  
Sun

Asteroid group
  
Asteroid belt

MPC designation
  
1743 Schmidt

Minor planet category
  
main-belt

Absolute magnitude
  
12.48

Discovery site
  
Palomar Observatory

Discovered by
  
Palomar–Leiden survey C. J. van Houten, I. van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels

Alternative names
  
4109 P–L · 1931 BJ 1939 CN · 1943 EA 1947 GD · 1951 JU 1952 QD

Discoverers
  
Tom Gehrels, Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld

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1743 Schmidt, also designated 4109 P–L, is an asteroid from the asteroid belt, about 17 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on September 24, 1960, by Cornelis van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld at Leiden, on photographic plates taken by Tom Gehrels at Palomar. The asteroid orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.1–2.8 AU once every 3.89 years (1,421 days). It has a rotation period of 17.5 hours and a geometric albedo of 0.06.

The designation P–L stands for Palomar–Leiden, named after Palomar Observatory and Leiden Observatory, which collaborated on the fruitful Palomar–Leiden survey in the 1960s. Gehrels used Palomar's Samuel Oschin telescope (also known as the 48-inch Schmidt Telescope), and shipped the photographic plates to Cornelis van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld at Leiden Observatory. The trio are credited with several thousand asteroid discoveries.

The asteroid was named after Baltic German optician and astronomer Bernhard Schmidt (1879–1935), the inventor of the Schmidt camera.

References

1743 Schmidt Wikipedia