(8054) Brentano Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 24 September 1960 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T. at Palomar.

Named for the German Romantic poet Clemens Brentano (1778-1842), esteemed in his time by important German poets and writers. Together with his friend Achim von Arnim he collected about 600 German folksongs in Des Knaben Wunderhorn . He also published famous fairy tales such as Gockel, Hinkel und Gackeleia .Naming citation (19990402/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Brentano is today

Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Brentano is 2.39 au from the Sun and 3.01 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number	8054
Provisional designation	4581 P-L
Orbit class	Main-belt Asteroid
Diameter	4.21 km (#12,247 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo	0.209
Rotation period	624 hours
Absolute magnitude (H)	14.32
Orbital period	3.35 years
Semi-major axis	2.24 au
Perihelion – aphelion	1.96 – 2.52 au
Eccentricity	0.126
Inclination	2.82°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)	0.959 au

Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.

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Also discovered on 24 September 1960

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