9995 Alouette
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| Discovered by | C. J. van Houten, I. van Houten-Groeneveld & T. Gehrels | ||||||||||||
| Discovery date | September 24, 1960 | ||||||||||||
| Designations | |||||||||||||
Named after | Alouette 1 | ||||||||||||
| 4805 P-L, 1981 EP22 | |||||||||||||
| Orbital characteristics | |||||||||||||
| Epoch October 27, 2007 | |||||||||||||
| Aphelion | 2.7785774 AU | ||||||||||||
| Perihelion | 2.0014784 AU | ||||||||||||
| 2.3900279 AU | |||||||||||||
| Eccentricity | 0.1625711 | ||||||||||||
| 1349.5932326 d | |||||||||||||
| 42.19644° | |||||||||||||
| Inclination | 2.31692° | ||||||||||||
| 21.03936° | |||||||||||||
| 198.06169° | |||||||||||||
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| S-type asteroid[2] | |||||||||||||
| 15.1 | |||||||||||||
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9995 Alouette is an S-type main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun once every 3.69 years.[3]
Discovered on September 24, 1960 by C. J. van Houten and I. van Houten-Groeneveld on archived photographic plates made by T. Gehrels, it was given the provisional designation 4805 P-L. It was later renamed Alouette in honour of Alouette-1, the first Canadian satellite.
References
- ↑ MPC 41571 Minor Planet Center
- ↑ 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".
- ↑ "9995 Alouette (4805 P-L)". JPL Small-Body Database Browser. JPL.
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