9904 Mauratombelli
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| Discovered by | A. Boattini & L. Tesi | ||||||||||||
| Discovery date | July 29, 1997 | ||||||||||||
| Designations | |||||||||||||
| MPC designation | 9904 Mauratombelli | ||||||||||||
Named after | Maura Tombelli | ||||||||||||
| 1997 OC1, 1996 MC1 | |||||||||||||
| Orbital characteristics | |||||||||||||
| Epoch October 27, 2007 | |||||||||||||
| Aphelion | 3.2500424 AU | ||||||||||||
| Perihelion | 2.2164804 AU | ||||||||||||
| 2.7332614 AU | |||||||||||||
| Eccentricity | 0.1890712 | ||||||||||||
| 1650.5176505 d | |||||||||||||
| 8.64182° | |||||||||||||
| Inclination | 8.47192° | ||||||||||||
| 154.24415° | |||||||||||||
| 265.58478° | |||||||||||||
| Physical characteristics | |||||||||||||
| Dimensions | ~17.8 km[1] | ||||||||||||
| ~0.01 | |||||||||||||
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| C-type asteroid[2] | |||||||||||||
| 14.3 | |||||||||||||
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9904 Mauratombelli is a C-type main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun once every 4.52 years.[3]
Discovered on July 29, 1997 by Andrea Boattini and Luciano Tesi working at the Pistoia Mountains Astronomical Observatory, it was given the provisional designation "1997 OC1". It was later renamed "Mauratombelli" after astronomer Maura Tombelli, who studied variable stars and minor planets.[4]
References
- ↑ Tedesco E.F.; Noah P.V.; Noah M.; Price S.D. "The supplemental IRAS minor planet survey (SIMPS)".
- ↑ 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".
- ↑ "9904 Mauratombelli (1997 OC1)". JPL Small-Body Database Browser. NASA/JPL. Retrieved February 7, 2008.
- ↑ MPC 34632 Minor Planet Center
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