(19226) Peiresc

Template: Infobox Asteroid / Maintenance / Error 2

( 19226 ) Peiresc is an asteroid of the main belt, which was discovered on 15 September 1993 in Chile by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory ( IAU code 809).

The asteroid was named after the French humanist, scholar and art collector Nicolas- Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637), in 1610 the Orion Nebula discovered.

495
de