(10606) Crocco
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Asteroid (10606) Crocco |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1498 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1005 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.8333 AU - 3.4663 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 17.6202 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 41.2382 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 260.9792 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.59 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.79 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.3 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Valter Giuliani Francesco Manca |
| Date of discovery | November 3, 1996 |
| Another name | 1996 VD 1 , 1988 FC 1 |
| Source: Unless otherwise stated, the data comes from JPL Small-Body Database Browser . The affiliation to an asteroid family is automatically determined from the AstDyS-2 database . Please also note the note on asteroid items. | |
(10606) Crocco is an asteroid of the main belt discovered on November 3, 1996 by the Italian astronomers Valter Giuliani and Francesco Manca at the Osservatorio Astronomico Sormano ( IAU code 587) in Sormano .
The asteroid was named on March 28, 2002 after the Italian aviation and rocket pioneer Gaetano Arturo Crocco (1877–1968), who constructed airships and wind tunnels during the First World War . In 1951 he founded the Italian Missile Company and was jointly responsible for Italy launching its own satellite into space in 1960 .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Crocco: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (10606) Crocco in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (10606) Crocco in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).