7805 Moons (7610 P-L) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 17 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory. It is named in memory of Michèle Moons (1951-1998) who worked on celestial mechanics while at the department of mathematics of Facultés Universitaires N. D. de la Paix Namur Belgium.
apoapsis (km)
3.85972e+11
orbital period (μ)
1.08241e+08
periapsis (km)
2.94496e+11
absolute magnitude
14.4
discovery date
1960-10-17
discoverer
Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, Tom Gehrels
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