- 8969 Alexandrinus
Infobox Planet
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name = Alexandrinus
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discovery = yes
discovery_ref =
discoverer =Cornelis Johannes van Houten ,Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld
discovery_site =
discovered =29 September ,1973
designations = yes
mp_name = 8969
alt_names = 1218 T-2
mp_category =
orbit_ref =
epoch =May 14 ,2008
aphelion = 2.5979201
perihelion = 2.2161901
semimajor =
eccentricity = 0.0792940
period = 1364.0411842
avg_speed =
inclination = 0.96152
asc_node = 154.30626
mean_anomaly = 32.59585
arg_peri = 283.12828
satellites =
physical_characteristics = yes
dimensions =
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abs_magnitude = 14.18969 Alexandrinus (1218 T-2) is a
Main-belt Asteroid discovered on29 September ,1973 byCornelis Johannes van Houten andIngrid van Houten-Groeneveld . It is named for theKentish Plover , "Charadrius alexandrinus".External links
* [http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=8969+Alexandrinus JPL Small-Body Database Browser on 8969 Alexandrinus]
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