(6672) Corot Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 24 March 1971 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T. at Palomar.
Where Corot is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Corot is 2.63 au from the Sun and 3.25 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 6672 |
| Provisional designation | 1213 T-1 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.14 km (#16,856 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.803 |
| Rotation period | 37.6 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.71 |
| Orbital period | 3.75 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.41 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.89 – 2.93 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.215 |
| Inclination | 4.81° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.894 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also discovered on 24 March 1971
- (1864) Daedalus
- (1870) Glaukos
- (1871) Astyanax
- (1872) Helenos
- (1877) Marsden
- (6750) Katgert
- (11249) Etna
- (23403) Boudewijnbuch
More named asteroids discovered by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T.
- (1743) Schmidt
- (1744) Harriet
- (1776) Kuiper
- (1777) Gehrels
- (1778) Alfven
- (1795) Woltjer
- (1808) Bellerophon
- (1809) Prometheus
- (1810) Epimetheus
- (1811) Bruwer
- (1812) Gilgamesh
- (1813) Imhotep
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