Discovery date 8 October 1953 Minor planet category main-belt Discovered 8 October 1953 Orbits Sun | MPC designation 1762 Russell Observation arc 68.16 yr (24897 days) Absolute magnitude 11.2 Asteroid group Asteroid belt | |
Alternative names 1953 TZ · 1947 LM1953 TW2 · 1956 GF1963 VN | ||
1762 Russell, provisional designation 1953 TZ, is a main-belt asteroid discovered at Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana by the Indiana Asteroid Program on October 8, 1953.
It is named after distinguished American astronomer Henry Norris Russell (1877–1957), noted for the H-R diagram and research on a variety of topics in fundamental astronomy, astrophysics, and the analysis of atomic spectra (see Russell-Saunders coupling).
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