Discovery date 17 October 1960 Alternative names 5557 P-L Discovered 17 October 1960 Named after Giordano Bruno Asteroid group Asteroid belt | MPC designation 5148 Observation arc 20165 days (55.21 yr) Orbits Sun Discovery site Palomar Observatory | |
Discovered by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels Aphelion 3.5697906 AU (534.03307 Gm) Discoverers Tom Gehrels, Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld Similar Asteroid belt, Sun, 3047 Goethe | ||
5148 Giordano (5557 P-L) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 17, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.
The asteroid was subsequently designated 5148, as a permutation of Bruno's birth year (1548).
Another asteroid related (with his name) to Giordano Bruno is 13223 Cenaceneri named after work of him La Cena delle Ceneri ("The Dinner of the Ashes") in which, for the first time in Western philosophical thought, there is discussion of the infinity of worlds in the universe. He published it in 1584.
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