9912 Donizetti
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Discovery and designation
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| Discovered by | C. J. van Houten, I. van Houten-Groeneveld & T. Gehrels | |||||||||
| Discovery date | October 16, 1977 | |||||||||
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Designations
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| MPC designation | 9912 Donizetti | |||||||||
| Alternative names[1] | 2078 T-3, 1979 BH1, 1989 SJ10 | |||||||||
| Epoch October 27, 2007 | ||||||||||
| Ap | 2.9408392 AU | |||||||||
| Peri | 2.189721 AU | |||||||||
| Semi-major axis | 2.5652801 AU | |||||||||
| Eccentricity | 0.1464008 | |||||||||
| Orbital period | 1500.7232861 d | |||||||||
| Mean anomaly | 277.13215° | |||||||||
| Inclination | 7.26574° | |||||||||
| Longitude of ascending node | 344.26015° | |||||||||
| Argument of peri | 227.33207° | |||||||||
| Dimensions | ~37.1 km[2] | |||||||||
| Geometric albedo | ~0.01 | |||||||||
| Surface temp. Kelvin Celsius |
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| Spectral type | S-type asteroid[3] | |||||||||
| Absolute magnitude | 12.8 | |||||||||
9912 Donizetti is an S-type main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun once every 4.11 years.[4] It is associated with the Rafita family of asteroids.[5]
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.[6]
[edit] References
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- ^ 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.
- ^ 9912 Donizetti (2078 T-3). JPL Small-Body Database Browser. NASA/JPL. Retrieved on 2008-02-04.
- ^ Zappala, V., Ph. Bendjoya, A. Cellino, P. Farinella, and C. Froeschle (1997). Asteroid Dynamical Families.. EAR-A-5-DDR-FAMILY-V4.1. NASA Planetary Data System.
- ^ MPC 34356 Minor Planet Center
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