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6257 Thorvaldsen (4098 T-1) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 26 1971 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory. It is named after the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen.

apoapsis (km)
3.81453e+11
orbital period (μ)
1.1306e+08
periapsis (km)
3.19067e+11
absolute magnitude
13.5
discovery date
1971-03-26
discoverer
Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, Tom Gehrels
epoch
May 14 2008
former name
4098 T-1

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