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 | October 16, 1977 | ||||||||||||
| Designations | |||||||||||||
| 9912 Donizetti | |||||||||||||
Named after | Gaetano Donizetti | ||||||||||||
| 2078 T-3, 1979 BH1, 1989 SJ10 | |||||||||||||
| Orbital characteristics | |||||||||||||
| Epoch October 27, 2007 | |||||||||||||
| Aphelion | 2.9408392 AU | ||||||||||||
| Perihelion | 2.189721 AU | ||||||||||||
| 2.5652801 AU | |||||||||||||
| Eccentricity | 0.1464008 | ||||||||||||
| 1500.7232861 d | |||||||||||||
| 277.13215° | |||||||||||||
| Inclination | 7.26574° | ||||||||||||
| 344.26015° | |||||||||||||
| 227.33207° | |||||||||||||
| Physical characteristics | |||||||||||||
| Dimensions | ~37.1 km[1] | ||||||||||||
| ~0.01 | |||||||||||||
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| S-type asteroid[2] | |||||||||||||
| 12.8 | |||||||||||||
9912 Donizetti is an S-type main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun once every 4.11 years.[3] 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
- ^ 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".
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|last-author-amp=ignored (|name-list-style=suggested) (help) - ^ "9912 Donizetti (2078 T-3)". JPL Small-Body Database Browser. NASA/JPL. Retrieved 2008-02-04.
- ^ 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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