9907 Oileus
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| Discovered by | C. J. van Houten, I. van Houten-Groeneveld & T. Gehrels | ||||||||||||
| Discovery date | September 24, 1960 | ||||||||||||
| Designations | |||||||||||||
| MPC designation | 9907 Oileus | ||||||||||||
| 6541 P-L, 1977 CC1 | |||||||||||||
| Orbital characteristics | |||||||||||||
| Epoch October 27, 2007 | |||||||||||||
| Aphelion | 5.6662265 AU | ||||||||||||
| Perihelion | 4.9480845 AU | ||||||||||||
| 5.3071555 AU | |||||||||||||
| Eccentricity | 0.0676579 | ||||||||||||
| 4465.7166929 d | |||||||||||||
| 272.48790° | |||||||||||||
| Inclination | 8.13956° | ||||||||||||
| 153.78340° | |||||||||||||
| 261.73477° | |||||||||||||
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| 11.6 | |||||||||||||
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9907 Oileus is a Jupiter Trojan asteroid of the Greek camp. It orbits the Sun once every 12.23 years.[1]
Discovered on September 24, 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 "6541 P-L". It was later renamed "Oileus" after Oileus, a Greek runner slower only than Achilles.[2]
References
- ↑ "9907 Oileus (6541 P-L)". JPL Small-Body Database Browser. NASA/JPL. Retrieved 2008-02-06.
- ↑ MPC 34356 Minor Planet Center
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