9906 Tintoretto
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| Discovered by | C. J. van Houten, I. van Houten-Groeneveld & T. Gehrels | ||||||||||||
| Discovery date | September 26, 1960 | ||||||||||||
| Designations | |||||||||||||
| MPC designation | 9906 Tintoretto | ||||||||||||
Named after | Tintoretto | ||||||||||||
| 6523 P-L, 1997 EP47 | |||||||||||||
| Orbital characteristics | |||||||||||||
| Epoch October 27, 2007 | |||||||||||||
| Aphelion | 3.0900016 AU | ||||||||||||
| Perihelion | 2.1523338 AU | ||||||||||||
| 2.6211677 AU | |||||||||||||
| Eccentricity | 0.1788645 | ||||||||||||
| 1550.0319307 d | |||||||||||||
| 50.62815° | |||||||||||||
| Inclination | 13.39043° | ||||||||||||
| 13.70038° | |||||||||||||
| 326.47094° | |||||||||||||
| Physical characteristics | |||||||||||||
| Dimensions | ~17.8 km[1] | ||||||||||||
| ~0.01 | |||||||||||||
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| 13.2 | |||||||||||||
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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]
References
- ↑ Tedesco E.F., Noah P.V., Noah M., Price S.D. "The supplemental IRAS minor planet survey (SIMPS)".
- ↑ Zappala, V., Ph. Bendjoya, A. Cellino, P. Farinella, and C. Froeschle (1997). "Asteroid Dynamical Families.". EAR-A-5-DDR-FAMILY-V4.1. NASA Planetary Data System.
- ↑ "9906 Tintoretto (6523 P-L)". JPL Small-Body Database Browser. NASA/JPL. Retrieved 2008-02-06.
- ↑ MPC 34356 Minor Planet Center
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