9949 Brontosaurus
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| Discovery and designation | |||||||||||||
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| Discovered by | E. W. Elst | ||||||||||||
| Discovery date | September 22, 1990 | ||||||||||||
| Designations | |||||||||||||
| MPC designation | 9949 Brontosaurus | ||||||||||||
Named after | Apatosaurus | ||||||||||||
| 1990 SK6, 1978 GT1, 1985 DM1, 1992 BS | |||||||||||||
| Orbital characteristics | |||||||||||||
| Epoch October 27, 2007 | |||||||||||||
| Aphelion | 2.5011022 AU | ||||||||||||
| Perihelion | 2.2088124 AU | ||||||||||||
| 2.3549573 AU | |||||||||||||
| Eccentricity | 0.0620584 | ||||||||||||
| 1319.9971092 d | |||||||||||||
| 60.26220° | |||||||||||||
| Inclination | 7.71049° | ||||||||||||
| 29.95483° | |||||||||||||
| 174.69144° | |||||||||||||
| Physical characteristics | |||||||||||||
| Dimensions | ~17km[1] | ||||||||||||
| ~0.01 | |||||||||||||
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| 14.0 | |||||||||||||
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9949 Brontosaurus is a main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun once every 3.61 years.[2]
Discovered on September 22, 1990 by E. W. Elst it was given the provisional designation "1990 SK6". It was later renamed "Brontosaurus" after Brontosaurus, a deprecated genus of dinosaur, now properly called Apatosaurus.[3]
References
- ↑ Tedesco E.F., Noah P.V., Noah M., Price S.D. "The supplemental IRAS minor planet survey (SIMPS)".
- ↑ "9949 Brontosaurus (1990 SK6)". JPL Small-Body Database Browser.
- ↑ MPC 47166' Minor Planet Center
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