9912 Donizetti
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| Discovery | |||||||||||||
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| Discovered by | C. J. van Houten, I. van Houten-Groeneveld & T. Gehrels | ||||||||||||
| Discovery date | 16 October 1977 | ||||||||||||
| Designations | |||||||||||||
| MPC designation | 9912 Donizetti | ||||||||||||
Named after | Gaetano Donizetti | ||||||||||||
| 2078 T-3, 1979 BH1, 1989 SJ10 | |||||||||||||
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |||||||||||||
| Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5) | |||||||||||||
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |||||||||||||
| Observation arc | 14044 days (38.45 yr) | ||||||||||||
| Aphelion | 2.9475374 AU (440.94532 Gm) | ||||||||||||
| Perihelion | 2.178171 AU (325.8497 Gm) | ||||||||||||
| 2.5628540 AU (383.39750 Gm) | |||||||||||||
| Eccentricity | 0.1500996 | ||||||||||||
| 4.10 yr (1498.6 d) | |||||||||||||
| 276.85232° | |||||||||||||
| 0° 14m 24.81s / day | |||||||||||||
| Inclination | 7.263966° | ||||||||||||
| 344.19245° | |||||||||||||
| 227.74137° | |||||||||||||
| Earth MOID | 1.18057 AU (176.611 Gm) | ||||||||||||
| Jupiter MOID | 2.05379 AU (307.243 Gm) | ||||||||||||
| Jupiter Tisserand parameter | 3.407 | ||||||||||||
| Physical characteristics | |||||||||||||
| Dimensions | ~37.1 km[2] | ||||||||||||
| 6.2281 h (0.25950 d) | |||||||||||||
| ~0.01 | |||||||||||||
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| S-type asteroid[3] | |||||||||||||
| 12.9 | |||||||||||||
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9912 Donizetti is an S-type main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun once every 4.11 years.[1] It is associated with the Rafita family of asteroids.[4]
Discovered on October 16, 1977 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld on photographic plates taken by Tom Gehrels with the Samuel Oschin telescope at the Palomar Observatory, it was given the provisional designation "2078 T-3". It was later renamed "Donizetti" after Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti.[5]
References
- 1 2 "9912 Donizetti (2078 T-3)". 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)".
- ↑ Gianluca Masi; Sergio Foglia & Richard P. Binzel. "Search for Unusual Spectroscopic Candidates Among 40313 minor planets from the 3rd Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Moving Object Catalog".
- ↑ 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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