10001 Palermo
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| Discovery[1] | |||||||||||||
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| Discovered by | L. I. Chernykh | ||||||||||||
| Discovery date | October 8, 1969 | ||||||||||||
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Named after | Palermo | ||||||||||||
| 1969 TM1, 1991 RS27[2] | |||||||||||||
| main belt | |||||||||||||
| Orbital characteristics[2][3] | |||||||||||||
| Epoch JD 2455800.5 (27 August 2011) | |||||||||||||
| Aphelion | 2.6942631 AU | ||||||||||||
| Perihelion | 2.0607877 AU | ||||||||||||
| 2.3775254 AU | |||||||||||||
| Eccentricity | 0.1332216 | ||||||||||||
| 3.666029 yr (1339.017 d) | |||||||||||||
| 141.44839° | |||||||||||||
| Inclination | 7.42485° | ||||||||||||
| 40.23431° | |||||||||||||
| 357.83458° | |||||||||||||
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| Dimensions | ~6 km | ||||||||||||
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| 13.9 | |||||||||||||
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10001 Palermo is an asteroid from the asteroid belt. Discovered on October 8, 1969, it was named "Palermo" after Palermo, the capital of Sicily where Giuseppe Piazzi made the first discovery of an asteroid, 1 Ceres.[4] The naming was made in January 2001 to honour the discovery of Ceres, as that was the 200th anniversary of that discovery.[5]
The asteroid is about six kilometers in radius, although it may be irregularly shaped. It orbits the Sun every 3.67 years.
References
- ↑ Minor Planet Ephemeris Service
- 1 2 JPL Small-Body Database Browser
- ↑ AstDys
- ↑ Citation for (10001). MPC 41937. Minor Planet Center.
- ↑ Chernykh, L. I. (September 2002). "Minor Planet(10001) is named Palermo". Memorie della Societa' Astronomica Italiana 73 (3): 624. Bibcode:2002MmSAI..73..624C.
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