(10651) van Linschoten Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 24 September 1960 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T. at Palomar.

Jan Huygen van Linschoten (1563-1611) lived in Asia from 1583 until 1588. After his return he wrote the first Dutch standard work about Asia, Itinerario (1596). It is a manual for sailors, as well as a trading guide and a treatise about countries and their people.Naming citation (20021120/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where van Linschoten is today

Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: van Linschoten is 2.87 au from the Sun and 3.84 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number	10651
Provisional designation	4522 P-L
Orbit class	Main-belt Asteroid
Diameter	7.86 km (#6,724 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo	0.0660
Rotation period	4.82 hours
Absolute magnitude (H)	14.38
Orbital period	4.52 years
Semi-major axis	2.73 au
Perihelion – aphelion	2.54 – 2.93 au
Eccentricity	0.0717
Inclination	5.13°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)	1.53 au

Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.

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Also discovered on 24 September 1960

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