9912 Donizetti

9912 Donizetti

Orbit of 9912 Donizetti (blue), planets (red) and the Sun (black). The outermost planet visible is Jupiter.
Discovery
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°
 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
Surface temp. min mean max
Kelvin
Celsius
S-type asteroid[3]
12.9

    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. 1 2 "9912 Donizetti (2078 T-3)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
    2. Tedesco E.F.; Noah P.V.; Noah M.; Price S.D. "The supplemental IRAS minor planet survey (SIMPS)".
    3. 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".
    4. 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.
    5. MPC 34356 Minor Planet Center

    External links


    This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Wednesday, April 13, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.