9915 Potanin
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| Discovery and designation | |||||||||||||
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| Discovered by | N. S. Chernykh | ||||||||||||
| Discovery date | September 8, 1977 | ||||||||||||
| Designations | |||||||||||||
| MPC designation | 9915 Potanin | ||||||||||||
| 1977 RD2, 1982 SP5, 1987 RS2 | |||||||||||||
| Orbital characteristics | |||||||||||||
| Epoch October 27, 2007 | |||||||||||||
| Aphelion | 3.4925053 AU | ||||||||||||
| Perihelion | 2.3977123 AU | ||||||||||||
| 2.9451088 AU | |||||||||||||
| Eccentricity | 0.1858663 | ||||||||||||
| 1846.0797190d | |||||||||||||
| 323.16002° | |||||||||||||
| Inclination | 3.2004° | ||||||||||||
| 50.30313° | |||||||||||||
| 339.89329° | |||||||||||||
| Physical characteristics | |||||||||||||
| Dimensions | ~32.9 km[1] | ||||||||||||
| ~0.01 | |||||||||||||
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| C-type asteroid[2] | |||||||||||||
| 12.7 | |||||||||||||
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9915 Potanin is a C-type main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun once every 5.05 years.[3]
Discovered on September 8, 1977 by Nikolai Chernykh, it was given the provisional designation "1977 RD2". It was later renamed "Potanin" after Grigorij Potanin, a Russian explorer of Siberia.[4]
References
- ↑ Tedesco E.F., Noah P.V., Noah M., Price S.D. "The supplemental IRAS minor planet survey (SIMPS)".
- ↑ 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".
- ↑ "9915 Potanin (1977 RD2)". JPL Small-Body Database Browser. NASA/JPL. Retrieved 2008-02-01.
- ↑ MPC 42359 Minor Planet Center
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