(12513) Niven

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( 12513 ) Niven is an asteroid of the inner main belt, which at the Prescott Observatory in Prescott, Arizona ( IAU code 684) was discovered by the Italian-American astronomer Paul G. Comba on 27 April 1998. Sightings of the asteroid it had previously announced on 11 November 1980 under the provisional designation 1980 VV on Kleť Observatory in Český Krumlov.

Mean distance from the sun ( semimajor axis), eccentricity and inclination of the orbital plane of the asteroid similar to the path data of the members of the Flora family, a large group of asteroids that is named after ( 8) flora. Asteroids of this family move in an orbital resonance of 4:9 with the planet Mars around the Sun. The group is also called Ariadne family after the asteroid (43 ) Ariadne.

( 12513 ) Niven was named after the American- Canadian mathematician Ivan M. Niven ( 1915-1999 ). Niven has been dealing with number theory and combinatorics. The naming of the asteroid on 24 January 2000.

Orbital inclination Longitude of the ascending node Argument of periapsis Orbital speed Intrinsic brightness Minor planet designation Italian American Prescott (Arizona) (8) Flora (43) Ariadne Jet Propulsion Laboratory NASA Pasadena, California Minor Planet Center International Astronomical Union Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge (Massachusetts)
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