9934 Caccioppoli
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| Discovered by | Edward L. G. Bowell | ||||||||||||
| Discovery date | October 20, 1985 | ||||||||||||
| Designations | |||||||||||||
| MPC designation | 9934 Caccioppoli | ||||||||||||
Named after | Renato Caccioppoli | ||||||||||||
| 1985 UC, 1981 SK7, 1989 TG14 | |||||||||||||
| Orbital characteristics | |||||||||||||
| Epoch October 27, 2007 | |||||||||||||
| Aphelion | 3.1778324 AU | ||||||||||||
| Perihelion | 1.981331 AU | ||||||||||||
| 2.5795817 AU | |||||||||||||
| Eccentricity | 0.2319177 | ||||||||||||
| 1513.2906644 d | |||||||||||||
| 166.14900° | |||||||||||||
| Inclination | 16.61789° | ||||||||||||
| 11.27740° | |||||||||||||
| 294.84492° | |||||||||||||
| Physical characteristics | |||||||||||||
| Dimensions | ~19.5 km[1] | ||||||||||||
| ~0.01 | |||||||||||||
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| C-type asteroid[2] | |||||||||||||
| 13.5 | |||||||||||||
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9934 Caccioppoli is a C-type main belt asteroid of the solar system. It orbits the Sun once every 4.14 years.[3]
Discovered on October 20, 1985 by Ted Bowell it was given the provisional designation "1985 UC". Later, it was renamed "Caccioppoli" in honour of Francis Caccioppoli, the director of the Naval Institute in Procida, and Renato Caccioppoli, an Italian mathematician, at the suggestion of Ettore Perozzi.[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".
- ↑ "9934 Caccioppoli (1985 UC)". JPl Small-Body Database Browser. NASA/JPL. Retrieved 2008-01-05.
- ↑ MPC 42670 Minor Planet Center
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