9997 COBE
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| Discovery[1] and designation | |||||||||||||
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| Discovered by | C.J. van Houten, I. van Houten-Groeneveld & T. Gehrels | ||||||||||||
| Discovery date | March 25, 1971 | ||||||||||||
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Named after | Cosmic Background Explorer | ||||||||||||
| 1217 T-1, 1969 UJ, 1989 SW11, 1991 EZ3 | |||||||||||||
| Orbital characteristics | |||||||||||||
| Epoch October 27, 2007 | |||||||||||||
| Aphelion | 2.8355877 AU | ||||||||||||
| Perihelion | 2.2551011 AU | ||||||||||||
| 2.5453444 AU | |||||||||||||
| Eccentricity | 0.1140291 | ||||||||||||
| 1483.2632897 d | |||||||||||||
| 108.60988° | |||||||||||||
| Inclination | 2.46241° | ||||||||||||
| 335.59647° | |||||||||||||
| 90.30224° | |||||||||||||
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| 13.7 | |||||||||||||
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9997 COBE is a main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun once every 4.06 years.
Discovered on March 25, 1971 by C. J. van Houten and I. van Houten-Groeneveld in archival data produced by T. Gehrels, it was given the provision designation 1217 T-1. It was later renamed 9997 COBE in honor of the Cosmic Background Explorer.[2]
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