9962 Pfau
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| Discovery and designation | |||||||||||||
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| Discovered by | F. Borngen | ||||||||||||
| Discovery date | December 28, 1991 | ||||||||||||
| Designations | |||||||||||||
| MPC designation | 9962 Pfau | ||||||||||||
| 1991 YL1, 1996 FJ3, 1996 HN26 | |||||||||||||
| Orbital characteristics | |||||||||||||
| Epoch October 27, 2007 | |||||||||||||
| Aphelion | 2.7171403 AU | ||||||||||||
| Perihelion | 2.0499971 AU | ||||||||||||
| 2.3835687 AU | |||||||||||||
| Eccentricity | 0.1399463 | ||||||||||||
| 1344.1258675 d | |||||||||||||
| 64.90894° | |||||||||||||
| Inclination | 0.79066° | ||||||||||||
| 312.93406° | |||||||||||||
| 200.17947° | |||||||||||||
| Physical characteristics | |||||||||||||
| Dimensions | ~19.5 km[1] | ||||||||||||
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| 14.6 | |||||||||||||
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9962 Pfau is a main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun once every 3.68 years.[2]
Discovered on December 28, 1991 by F. Borngen, it was given the provisional designation "1991 YL1". It was later renamed "Pfau" after Werner Pfau, a former director of the Jena University Observatory and former chairman of the Astronomische Gesellschaft.[3]
References
- ↑ Tedesco E.F., Noah P.V., Noah M., Price S.D. "The supplemental IRAS minor planet survey (SIMPS)".
- ↑ "9962 Pfau (1991 YL1)". JPL Small-Body Database Browser.
- ↑ MPC 41937 Minor Planet Center
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