8123 Canaletto

8123 Canaletto
Name
Name Canaletto
Designation 3138 T-1
Discovery
Discoverers Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels
Discovery date March 26, 1971
Orbital elements
Epoch October 27, 2007 (JDCT 2454400.5)
Eccentricity (e) 0.1307345
Semimajor axis (a) 2.2873281 AU
Perihelion (q) 1.9882954 AU
Aphelion (Q) 2.5863608 AU
Orbital period (P) 3.46 a
Inclination (i) 3.754°
Longitude of the ascending node (Ω) 177.47378°
Argument of Perihelion (ω) 285.51229°
Mean anomaly (M) 274.77566°

8123 Canaletto is a main belt asteroid with a perihelion of 1.99 AU It has an eccentricity of 0.131 and an orbital period of 1263.5 days (3.46 years).[1]

Caldeira has an average orbital speed of 19.692 km/s and an inclination of 3.754°.

The asteroid was discovered on March 26, 1971 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels

This asteroid is named after, the artist Giovanni Antonio Canal who is commonly called Canaletto.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser". NASA. Retrieved 2008-02-19.