Discovery date 29 September 1973 Observation arc 15415 days (42.20 yr) Orbits Sun Asteroid group Asteroid belt | Alternative names 4270 T-2 Discovered 29 September 1973 Discovery site Palomar Observatory MPC designation 7266 | |
Discovered by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels Aphelion 2.7891561 AU (417.25181 Gm) Perihelion 2.1028912 AU (314.58805 Gm) Discoverers Tom Gehrels, Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld People also search for 7007 Timjull, 7051 Sean | ||
7266 Trefftz (4270 T-2) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 29, 1973 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory. It is named after the mathematician and physicist Eleonore Trefftz (born in Aachen in 1920).
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