9911 Quantz
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| Discovery and designation | |||||||||||||
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| Discovered by | C. J. van Houten, I. van Houten-Groeneveld & T. Gehrels | ||||||||||||
| Discovery date | September 29, 1973 | ||||||||||||
| Designations | |||||||||||||
| MPC designation | 9911 Quantz | ||||||||||||
Named after | Johann Joachim Quantz | ||||||||||||
| 4129 T-2, 1986 GR, 1989 CL4 | |||||||||||||
| Orbital characteristics | |||||||||||||
| Epoch October 27, 2007 | |||||||||||||
| Aphelion | 2.6354156 AU | ||||||||||||
| Perihelion | 1.9658094 AU | ||||||||||||
| 2.3006125 AU | |||||||||||||
| Eccentricity | 0.1455278 | ||||||||||||
| 1274.5699017 d | |||||||||||||
| 40.62980° | |||||||||||||
| Inclination | 5.20572° | ||||||||||||
| 29.68954° | |||||||||||||
| 199.23810° | |||||||||||||
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| S-type asteroid[1] | |||||||||||||
| 14.3 | |||||||||||||
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9911 Quantz is an S-type main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun once every 3.49 years.[2]
Discovered on September 29, 1973 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld on photographic plates that had been taken by Tom Gehrels with the Samuel Oschin telescope at the Palomar Observatory, it was given the provisional designation "4129 T-2". It was later renamed "Quantz" after Johan Joachim Quantz, a 17th-century German music teacher and composer.[3]
References
- ↑ Gianluca Masi, Sergio Foglia & Richard P. Binzel. "Search for Unusual Spectroscopic Candidates Among 40313 minor planets from the 3rd Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Moving Object Catalog".
- ↑ "9911 Quantz (4129 T-2)". JPL Small-Body Database Browser. NASA/JPL. Retrieved 2008-02-04.
- ↑ MPC 34356 Minor Planet Center
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