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3016 Meuse

Main-belt asteroid

Field	Value
minorplanet	yes
name	Meuse
bgcolour	#FFFFC0
discoverer	H. Debehogne
discovery_site	La Silla
discovered	March 1, 1981
mp_name	3016
named_after	Meuse
alt_names	1981 EK
epoch	May 14, 2008
aphelion	2.9561403
perihelion	2.7115033
eccentricity	0.0431638
period	1742.4376150
mean_anomaly	314.18212
inclination	2.89205
asc_node	128.97056
arg_peri	322.79331
abs_magnitude	12.3

3016 Meuse (1981 EK) is an asteroid of the outer main-belt, approximately ten kilometers in diameter, which was discovered on March 1, 1981 by the Belgian astronomer Henri Debehogne and the Italian astronomer Giovanni de Sanctis at La Silla Observatory on La Silla in La Higuera, Chile.

Naming & designation

3016 Meuse was named after the Meuse (Dutch/German: Maas), a river nearly 900 kilometers long. It flows through the French cities of Verdun, Domremy-la-Canne, and Sedan; the Belgian cities of Dinant (Asteroid: 2765 Dinant), Namur (3374 Namur), Huy, and Liège, as well as the cities of Maastricht, Venlo, and 's-Hertogenbosch in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

References

"(3016) Meuse in IAU Minor Planet Center".
(2003). "(3016) Meuse". Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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