van Schooten
(6676 P-L )
Inclination: 1.118
Eccentricity: 0.109
Period: 5.202 years
AU 3.002
Type: 0000
Discovery Chart
24.9.1960 00:00 Palomar 116w51 33n21 observations 1 << prev in category - Long names - next in category >>
Frans van Schooten (c. 1615-1660), at the University of Leiden, wrote Exercitationes mathematicae (1657) and Geometria a Renato Des Cartes (1659-1661). A promotor of cartesian geometry, he printed the first Latin version of Descartes' La Géométrie in 1649. The name was suggested by W. A. Fröger.
Discovered on 24-9-1960 in Palomar by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T. | ||
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