9996 ANS
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| Discovered by | C. J. van Houten, I. van Houten-Groeneveld & T. Gehrels | ||||||||||||
| Discovery date | October 17, 1960 | ||||||||||||
| Designations | |||||||||||||
Named after | Astronomical Netherlands Satellite | ||||||||||||
| 9070 P-L, 1974 SH2, 1996 GP17 | |||||||||||||
| Orbital characteristics | |||||||||||||
| Epoch October 27, 2007 | |||||||||||||
| Aphelion | 3.4520624 AU | ||||||||||||
| Perihelion | 2.142778 AU | ||||||||||||
| 2.7974202 AU | |||||||||||||
| Eccentricity | 0.2340164 | ||||||||||||
| 1708.9721942 d | |||||||||||||
| 13.08807° | |||||||||||||
| Inclination | 7.65987° | ||||||||||||
| 209.42007° | |||||||||||||
| 166.62719° | |||||||||||||
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| C-type asteroid[2] | |||||||||||||
| 13.0 | |||||||||||||
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9996 ANS is a C-type main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun once every 4.68 years.[3]
Discovered on October 17, 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 9070 P-L. It was later renamed in honour of the Astronomical Netherlands Satellite, an X-ray and gamma ray telescope located in space.
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".
- ↑ "9996 ANS (9070 P-L)". JPL Small-Body Database Browser. JPL.
External links
- 9996 ANS at the JPL Small-Body Database
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