Discovery and designation
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Discovered by | C. J. van Houten, I. van Houten-Groeneveld & T. Gehrels | |||||||||
Discovery date | September 26, 1960 | |||||||||
Designations
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MPC designation | 9906 Tintoretto | |||||||||
Named after | Tintoretto | |||||||||
Alternate name(s) | 6523 P-L, 1997 EP47 | |||||||||
Epoch October 27, 2007 | ||||||||||
Ap | 3.0900016 AU | |||||||||
Peri | 2.1523338 AU | |||||||||
Semi-major axis | 2.6211677 AU | |||||||||
Eccentricity | 0.1788645 | |||||||||
Orbital period | 1550.0319307 d | |||||||||
Mean anomaly | 50.62815° | |||||||||
Inclination | 13.39043° | |||||||||
Longitude of ascending node | 13.70038° | |||||||||
Argument of peri | 326.47094° | |||||||||
Dimensions | ~17.8 km[1] | |||||||||
Geometric albedo | ~0.01 | |||||||||
Surface temp. Kelvin Celsius |
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Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.2 | |||||||||
9906 Tintoretto is a mid-sized Eunomian asteroid[2] that orbits the Sun once every 4.24 years.[3]
Discovered on September 26, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld on photographic plates made by Tom Gehrels at the Palomar Observatory with the Samuel Oschin telescope, it was given the provisional designation "6523 P-L". It was later renamed "Tintoretto" after Venetian painter Jacopo Robusti, who was known as "Tintoretto".[4]
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