24101 Cassini
| Discovery and designation | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | C. W. Juels |
| Discovery site | Fountain Hills |
| Discovery date | November 9, 1999 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 24101 |
Named after | Giovanni Domenico Cassini |
| 1999 VA9 | |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch May 14, 2008 | |
| Aphelion | 3.4618154 |
| Perihelion | 1.8288690 |
| Eccentricity | 0.3086456 |
| 1571.5246714 | |
| 330.63237 | |
| Inclination | 15.47429 |
| 176.62805 | |
| 255.91659 | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 12.9 | |
|
| |
24101 Cassini (1999 VA9) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 9, 1999 by C. W. Juels at Fountain Hills. It was named after the astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini.
References
- Behrend, R. (2009) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html
- Durkee, R.I. (2011) http://home.earthlink.net/~shedofscience/index.html
External links
| ||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||