Discovery and designation
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Discovered by | S. Otomo | |||||||||
Discovery date | May 26, 1993 | |||||||||
Designations
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Alternate name(s) | 1993 KQ, 1958 DQ, 1979 HE6, 1982 BE2, 1989 AQ9 | |||||||||
Epoch October 27, 2007 | ||||||||||
Ap | 2.7470181 AU | |||||||||
Peri | 1.8320159 AU | |||||||||
Semi-major axis | 2.289517 AU | |||||||||
Eccentricity | 0.1998243 | |||||||||
Orbital period | 1265.3604210 d | |||||||||
Mean anomaly | 73.04899° | |||||||||
Inclination | 9.42008° | |||||||||
Longitude of ascending node | 97.95756° | |||||||||
Argument of peri | 124.54657° | |||||||||
Surface temp. Kelvin Celsius |
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Spectral type | C-type asteroid[1] | |||||||||
Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.6 | |||||||||
9972 Minoruoda is a C-type main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun once every 3.46 years.[2]
Discovered on May 26, 1993 by S. Otomo it was given the provisional designation 1993 KQ. It was later renamed "Minoruoda" after Minoru Oda, a former director general of the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science.[3]
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