(8240) Matisse

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( 8240 ), Matisse is one of the inner main belt asteroid, which was discovered on 29 September 1973 by the Dutch astronomer Cornelis Johannes van Houten couple and Ingrid van Houten - Groeneveld. The discovery happened during the 2nd Trojan survey, in which the 120 - cm Oschin Schmidt telescope at Palomar Observatory recorded by Tom Gehrels field plates at Leiden University were screened, 13 years after the beginning of the Palomar - Leiden Surveys.

Mean distance from the sun ( semimajor axis), eccentricity and inclination of the orbital plane of the asteroids are within the respective limits that are defined for the Nysa group, one named after (44 ) Nysa group of asteroids (also called Hertha family, according to (135 ) Hertha).

( 8240 ) Matisse was named on April 2, 1999, after the French painter Henri Matisse, one of the leading artists of Modernism and the main exponents of Fauvism. In 1976, an impact crater was named in the southern hemisphere of the planet Mercury by Henri Matisse: Mercury crater Matisse.