9766 Bradbury
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Discovery and designation
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Discovered by | Spacewatch |
Discovery site | Kitt Peak |
Discovery date | February 24, 1992 |
Designations
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MPC designation | 9766 |
Alternative names[1] | 1992 DZ2 |
Epoch May 14, 2008 | |
Ap | 2.6527761 |
Peri | 2.2486111 |
Eccentricity | 0.0824593 |
Orbital period | 1401.3026899 |
Mean anomaly | 121.41254 |
Inclination | 1.27793 |
Longitude of ascending node | 53.22299 |
Argument of peri | 58.47231 |
Absolute magnitude | 14.2 |
9766 Bradbury (1992 DZ2) is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on February 24, 1992 by the Spacewatch project at Kitt Peak. It was named after science fiction writer Ray Bradbury, author of The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451.