(6673) Degas Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 25 March 1971 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T. at Palomar.
Where Degas is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Degas is 2.63 au from the Sun and 2.61 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 6673 |
| Provisional designation | 2246 T-1 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 12.5 km (#3,904 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0440 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.61 |
| Orbital period | 3.79 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.43 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.92 – 2.94 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.211 |
| Inclination | 3.97° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.911 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also discovered on 25 March 1971
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- (5408) The
- (6072) Hooghoudt
- (6616) Plotinos
- (6617) Boethius
- (6751) van Genderen
- (7148) Reinholdbien
- (7211) Xerxes
- (7314) Pevsner
- (7624) Gluck
- (7690) Sackler
- (7972) Mariotti
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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