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7720 Lepaute

asteroid
Thing Asteroid Q263832

Facts

23 properties
Instance of
asteroid
Follows
(7719) 1997 GT36[7]
Followed by
7721 Andrillat[8]
Absolute magnitude
14.6, 14.75[19][20]
Apoapsis
3.772 au, 3.774901536694255 au
Argument of periapsis
191.34902°, 192.0457508515108°
Discoverer or inventor
Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, Tom Gehrels[2][3][4]
Epoch
November 21, 2025
Longitude of ascending node
174.81922°, 174.8186842584291°[25]
Mean anomaly
291.23071°, 43.31564720253527°
Minor planet group
asteroid belt, outer asteroid belt[9][10]
Named after
Nicole-Reine Lepaute[6]
Orbital eccentricity
0.16 (0.16–0.16, n=3)[16][17][18]
Orbital inclination
0.62486°, 0.6260068442554625°[21][22]
Orbital period
5.84 year, 2,130.562574583482 day[23][24]
Parent astronomical body
Sun[11]
Periapsis
2.7102616 au, 2.705877888303676 au
Provisional designation
1978 WN17, 4559 P-L[12][13]
Semi-major axis of an orbit
3.2411384 au, 3.240389712498966 au
Significant event
naming[15]
Site of astronomical discovery
Palomar Observatory[5]
Time of discovery or invention
September 26, 1960[14]
Time of periapsis
2,460,744.148064379 Julian day
🏷️ Also known as
en Lepaute de 4559 P-L de (7720) Lepaute fa سیارک ۷۷۲۰ ru Лепот ru (7720) 4559 P-L ru 1978 WN17 ru (7720) Лепот ru PLS4559 uk 7720 Лепот zh 小行星7720
🔖 Identifiers · 3
Freebase ID
/m/03y73nj
JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID
20007720
Minor Planet Center body ID
7720

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Summary

7720 Lepaute is an asteroid[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Minor Planet Center database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Minor Planet Center database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Minor Planet Center database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . Minor Planet Center database. wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . minorplanetcenter.net. minorplanetcenter.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . minorplanetcenter.net. minorplanetcenter.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . minorplanetcenter.net. minorplanetcenter.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . minorplanetcenter.net. minorplanetcenter.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . minorplanetcenter.net. minorplanetcenter.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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