(11524) Pleyel Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 2 August 1991 by E. W. Elst at La Silla.
Ignaz Jozef Pleyel (1757-1831) was an Austro-French composer who became famous as a piano builder. In 1795 he settled in Paris, where he founded a piano manufacturing company in 1807. The famous Polish-French composer Chopin preferred the Pleyel grand piano for performing his compositions.Naming citation (20000726/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Pleyel is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Pleyel is 2.10 au from the Sun and 2.66 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 11524 |
| Provisional designation | 1991 PY2 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 5.44 km (#9,818 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.187 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.12 |
| Orbital period | 3.70 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.39 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.10 – 2.69 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.124 |
| Inclination | 9.42° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.11 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also discovered on 2 August 1991
- (8169) Mirabeau
- (9184) Vasilij
- (9341) Gracekelly
- (10780) Apollinaire
- (11289) Frescobaldi
- (12294) Avogadro
- (12295) Tasso
- (13525) Paulledoux
- (19175) Peterpiot
- (20010) Tomfrench
- (48451) Pichincha
- (90717) Flanders
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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