(6056) Donatello

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( 6056 ) Donatello is a main belt asteroid of the middle, which was discovered on 16 October 1977 by the Dutch astronomer Cornelis Johannes van Houten couple and Ingrid van Houten - Groeneveld. The discovery happened in the third Trojan survey, in which the 120 - cm Oschin Schmidt telescope of the Palomar Observatory recorded by Tom Gehrels field plates at Leiden University were screened, 17 years after the beginning of the Palomar - Leiden Surveys.

The asteroid was named on 5 March 1996 by Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi known as Donatello, a sculptor, who with Luca della Robbia and Lorenzo Ghiberti of the founders of the early Renaissance in Florence. According to Luca della Robbia, the asteroid of the outer main belt ( 6057 ) Robbia is named after Lorenzo Ghiberti, the asteroid of the inner main belt ( 6054 ) Ghiberti.

Orbital inclination Longitude of the ascending node Argument of periapsis Orbital speed Intrinsic brightness Minor planet designation Palomar–Leiden survey (6057) Robbia (6054) Ghiberti Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, California Minor Planet Center International Astronomical Union Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge (Massachusetts)
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