8661 Ratzinger
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Discovery | |
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Discovered by | Lutz D. Schmadel and Freimut Börngen |
Discovery site | Tautenburg |
Discovery date | October 14, 1990 |
Designations | |
MPC designation | 8661 |
Named after
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Pope Benedict XVI |
1990 TA13 | |
Orbital characteristics | |
Epoch May 14, 2008 | |
Aphelion | 3.1254146 |
Perihelion | 2.8822456 |
Eccentricity | 0.0404765 |
1901.5662673 | |
75.42951 | |
Inclination | 10.56373 |
38.42747 | |
80.48693 | |
Physical characteristics | |
12.6 | |
8661 Ratzinger (1990 TA13) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 14, 1990 by Lutz D. Schmadel and Freimut Börngen at Tautenburg. The asteroid was named after then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (who later became Pope Benedict XVI) for the role he played in supervising the opening of Vatican archives in 1998 to researchers investigating judicial errors against Galileo and other medieval scientists. The name was proposed by the asteroid's first discoverers.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ "8661 Ratzinger (1990 TA13)". NASA. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
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