2019 van Albada [SEP] discoverer or inventor
2019 van Albada
2019 van Albada, provisional designation , is a stony Florian asteroid and former spacecraft target from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 8 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 28 September 1935, by Dutch astronomer Hendrik van Gent at Leiden Southern Station, annex to the Johannesburg Observatory in South Africa. The asteroid was later named after Gale Bruno van Albada.
Orbit and classification.
"van Albada" is a member of the Flora family, one of the largest collisional populations of stony
Van Albada
van Albada may refer to:
- Gale Bruno van Albada (1912-1972), Dutch astronomer
- Van Albada (crater), a crater on the moon named after him
- 2019 van Albada, a meteor named after him