- 7687 Matthias
Infobox Planet
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apsis =
name = Matthias
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discovery = yes
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discoverer =Cornelis Johannes van Houten andIngrid van Houten-Groeneveld
discovery_site = on Palomar Schmidt plates taken by T. Gehrels
discovered =September 24 ,1960
designations = yes
mp_name = 7687
alt_names = 2099 P-L
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orbit_ref =
epoch =May 14 ,2008
aphelion = 2.5347386
perihelion = 2.0045196
semimajor =
eccentricity = 0.1168074
period = 1248.9088959
avg_speed =
inclination = 5.77854
asc_node = 199.18925
mean_anomaly = 174.40226
arg_peri = 333.24893
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physical_characteristics = yes
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abs_magnitude = 14.1General
(7687) Matthias (2099 P-L) is a
Main-belt Asteroid discovered onSeptember 24 ,1960 byCornelis Johannes van Houten andIngrid van Houten-Groeneveld on Palomar Schmidt plates taken byTom Gehrels .
=Citation from the MPCs=Named in honor of Matthias Busch (b. 1968), amateur astronomer at the Starkenburg Observatory in Heppenheim who has made a substantial contribution to the astrometry of minor planets. He is an ardent follow-up observer of near-earth objects and a keen developer of astronomical software. Name proposed by L. D. Schmadel.
External links
* [http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=7687+Matthias JPL Small-Body Database Browser on (7687) Matthias]
* [http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=7687;orb=1;cov=0;log=0#orb JPL orbit diagram]
* [http://hamilton.dm.unipi.it/cgi-bin/astdys/astibo?objects:Matthias;main (7687) Matthias at AstDyS]ee also
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Asteroid belt
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*List of asteroids
*List of asteroids named after important people
*List of asteroids named after places
*List of noteworthy asteroids
*Meanings of asteroid names
*Minor planet
*Minor Planet Center
*Pronunciation of asteroid names
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