(12612) Daumier Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 24 September 1960 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T. at Palomar.
Honoré Daumier (1808-1879) was a great French painter and lithographer. Among his many satirical and socially critical works is Parisians Waiting for the Famous Comet, 1857, a comet that had been predicted to strike the earth but that never materialized.Naming citation (20071124/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Daumier is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Daumier is 2.67 au from the Sun and 1.96 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 12612 |
| Provisional designation | 2592 P-L |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.42 km (#14,163 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.345 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.58 |
| Orbital period | 3.85 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.45 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.23 – 2.68 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0919 |
| Inclination | 5.26° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.22 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Honore
All asteroids named after someone called Honore
Also discovered on 24 September 1960
- (1743) Schmidt
- (1744) Harriet
- (1776) Kuiper
- (1777) Gehrels
- (1795) Woltjer
- (1808) Bellerophon
- (1809) Prometheus
- (1810) Epimetheus
- (1811) Bruwer
- (1812) Gilgamesh
- (1846) Bengt
- (1868) Thersites