(9579) Passchendaele Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 3 April 1989 by E. W. Elst at La Silla.
Passchendaele is a village in West Flanders, close to Ypres. The village was first mentioned in 844 as Pascandale.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2014-09-09), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Passchendaele is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Passchendaele is 2.15 au from the Sun and 2.97 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 9579 |
| Provisional designation | 1989 GO4 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 8.66 km (#6,015 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0490 |
| Rotation period | 6.25 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.55 |
| Orbital period | 3.78 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.43 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.14 – 2.71 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.118 |
| Inclination | 1.75° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.15 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called West
All asteroids named after someone called West
Also discovered on 3 April 1989
- (5350) Epetersen
- (6006) Anaximandros
- (6152) Empedocles
- (6710) Apostel
- (7014) Nietzsche
- (7933) Magritte
- (8010) Bohnhardt
- (8353) Megryan
- (9325) Stonehenge
- (9578) Klyazma
- (9749) Van den Eijnde
- (10072) Uruguay
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
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