9951 Tyrannosaurus
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| Discovery | |||||||||||||
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| Discovered by | E. W. Elst | ||||||||||||
| Discovery date | 15 November 1990 | ||||||||||||
| Designations | |||||||||||||
| MPC designation | 9951 Tyrannosaurus | ||||||||||||
Named after | Tyrannosaurus | ||||||||||||
| 1990 VK5, 1974 OG1, 1992 EZ5 | |||||||||||||
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |||||||||||||
| Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5) | |||||||||||||
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |||||||||||||
| Observation arc | 14993 days (41.05 yr) | ||||||||||||
| Aphelion | 2.7234928 AU (407.42872 Gm) | ||||||||||||
| Perihelion | 2.129151 AU (318.5165 Gm) | ||||||||||||
| 2.426322 AU (362.9726 Gm) | |||||||||||||
| Eccentricity | 0.1224779 | ||||||||||||
| 3.78 yr (1380.5 d) | |||||||||||||
| 358.84785° | |||||||||||||
| 0° 15m 38.823s / day | |||||||||||||
| Inclination | 7.400270° | ||||||||||||
| 133.42927° | |||||||||||||
| 153.38762° | |||||||||||||
| Earth MOID | 1.11403 AU (166.657 Gm) | ||||||||||||
| Jupiter MOID | 2.43005 AU (363.530 Gm) | ||||||||||||
| Jupiter Tisserand parameter | 3.489 | ||||||||||||
| Physical characteristics | |||||||||||||
| Dimensions | ~17km[2] | ||||||||||||
| ~0.01 | |||||||||||||
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| S-type asteroid[3] | |||||||||||||
| 14.2 | |||||||||||||
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9951 Tyrannosaurus is an S-type main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun once every 3.78 years.[1]
Discovered on November 15, 1990 by E. W. Elst it was given the provisional designation "1990 VK5". On November 21, 2002 it was renamed "Tyrannosaurus" after Tyrannosaurus, a genus of large carnivorous dinosaur of the late Cretaceous.[4][5]
References
- 1 2 "9951 Tyrannosaurus (1990 VK5)". 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".
- ↑ MPC 47166 Minor Planet Center
- ↑ "Nov. 2002 Asteroid/Comet News". Columbine, Inc.
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