13208 Fraschetti

Fraschetti
Discovery and designation
Discovered by Near Earth Asteroid Tracking
Discovery site Haleakala, Maui, Hawaii.
Discovery date April 5, 1997
Designations
MPC designation 13208
Alternate name(s) 1997 GA38
Epoch January 4, 2010
Ap 2.9592076
Peri 1.9595818
Eccentricity 0.2032260
Orbital period 1408.7721975
Mean anomaly 17.40155
Inclination 4.50615
Longitude of ascending node 175.81318
Argument of peri 138.35220
Absolute magnitude (H) 14.1

13208 Fraschetti is a Main-belt asteroid discovered on April 5, 1997 by the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Near Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) program at Haleakala, Maui, Hawaii.

It is named after George Fraschetti (born 1941), a technical advisor and contributor to the NEAT instruments. During his 33 years at the JPL, he has worked on many flagship projects, notably the Voyager and Galileo imaging systems and the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field and Planetary Cameras.

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