(8826) Corneville Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 13 August 1988 by E. W. Elst at Haute Provence.
Corneville is a small village in Normandy, the setting for the 1877 operetta by Robert Planquette Les cloches de Corneville. The castle has been abandoned. However, the bells will ring when the legal owner of the castle again takes possession of his property.Naming citation (20021120/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Corneville is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Corneville is 3.19 au from the Sun and 4.04 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 8826 |
| Provisional designation | 1988 PZ1 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 11.8 km (#4,158 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0870 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.19 |
| Orbital period | 5.62 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.16 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.57 – 3.75 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.188 |
| Inclination | 0.476° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.56 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also discovered on 13 August 1988
- (3918) Brel
- (4347) Reger
- (4379) Snelling
- (4707) Khryses
- (5471) Tunguska
- (5866) Sachsen
- (6549) Skryabin
- (8827) Kollwitz
- (9315) Weigel
- (12240) Droste-Hulshoff
- (12241) Lefort
- (21010) Kishon
More named asteroids discovered by E. W. Elst
- (3631) Sigyn
- (3784) Chopin
- (3870) Mayre
- (3903) Kliment Ohridski
- (3910) Liszt
- (3912) Troja
- (3918) Brel
- (4038) Kristina
- (4226) Damiaan
- (4342) Freud
- (4344) Buxtehude
- (4345) Rachmaninoff
← (8824) Genta · (8827) Kollwitz →