9906 Tintoretto
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| Discovered by | C. J. van Houten, I. van Houten-Groeneveld & T. Gehrels | ||||||||||||
| Discovery date | 26 September 1960 | ||||||||||||
| Designations | |||||||||||||
| MPC designation | 9906 Tintoretto | ||||||||||||
Named after | Tintoretto | ||||||||||||
| 6523 P-L, 1997 EP47 | |||||||||||||
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |||||||||||||
| Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5) | |||||||||||||
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |||||||||||||
| Observation arc | 20201 days (55.31 yr) | ||||||||||||
| Aphelion | 3.0929089 AU (462.69259 Gm) | ||||||||||||
| Perihelion | 2.1470732 AU (321.19758 Gm) | ||||||||||||
| 2.6199911 AU (391.94509 Gm) | |||||||||||||
| Eccentricity | 0.1805036 | ||||||||||||
| 4.24 yr (1549.0 d) | |||||||||||||
| 27.949418° | |||||||||||||
| 0° 13m 56.675s / day | |||||||||||||
| Inclination | 13.385343° | ||||||||||||
| 13.617936° | |||||||||||||
| 326.23190° | |||||||||||||
| Earth MOID | 1.1512 AU (172.22 Gm) | ||||||||||||
| Jupiter MOID | 2.3581 AU (352.77 Gm) | ||||||||||||
| Jupiter Tisserand parameter | 3.344 | ||||||||||||
| Physical characteristics | |||||||||||||
| Dimensions | ~17.8 km[2] | ||||||||||||
| ~0.01 | |||||||||||||
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| 13.2 | |||||||||||||
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9906 Tintoretto is a mid-sized Eunomian asteroid[3] that orbits the Sun once every 4.24 years.[1]
Discovered on September 26, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld on photographic plates made by Tom Gehrels at the Palomar Observatory with the Samuel Oschin telescope, it was given the provisional designation "6523 P-L". It was later renamed "Tintoretto" after Venetian painter Jacopo Robusti, who was known as "Tintoretto".[4]
References
- 1 2 "9906 Tintoretto (6523 P-L)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
- ↑ Tedesco E.F.; Noah P.V.; Noah M.; Price S.D. "The supplemental IRAS minor planet survey (SIMPS)".
- ↑ Zappalà, Vincenzo; Bendjoya, Philippe; Cellino, Alberto; Farinella, Paolo; Froeschlé, Claude (1997). "Asteroid Dynamical Families.". EAR-A-5-DDR-FAMILY-V4.1. NASA Planetary Data System.
- ↑ MPC 34356 Minor Planet Center
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