(8236) Gainsborough

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( 8236 ) Gainsborough is a main belt asteroid of the middle, which was discovered on 24 September 1960 by the Dutch astronomer Cornelis Johannes van Houten couple and Ingrid van Houten - Groeneveld. The discovery came as part of the Palomar - Leiden Survey, which recorded by Tom Gehrels with the 120 - inch Oschin Schmidt telescope at Palomar Observatory field plates at Leiden University were screened.

The asteroid belongs to the Dora family, a group of asteroids that is named after ( 668 ) Dora. The timeless ( nichtoskulierenden ) orbital elements of ( 8236 ) Gainsborough are almost identical to those of the larger, if we start from the absolute brightness of 13.9 compared with 14.8, asteroid ( 5345 ) Boynton.

( 8236 ) Gainsborough is named after the English painter Thomas Gainsborough, who devoted himself especially to the portrait and landscape painting and is regarded, along with William Hogarth and Joshua Reynolds as the most important English painters of the 18th century. The appointment took place on April 2, 1999 In 1985, an impact crater was named in the southern hemisphere of the planet Mercury by Thomas Gainsborough: . Merkur crater Gainsborough.

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