(11667) Testa
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Asteroid (11667) Testa |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3192 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1566 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.9560 AU - 2.6823 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.7543 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 32.1276 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 261.8336 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.53 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.55 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.8 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Luciano Tesi Andrea Boattini |
| Date of discovery | October 19, 1997 |
| Another name | 1997 UB 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. | |
(11667) Testa is an asteroid of the main belt discovered on October 19, 1997 by the Italian astronomers Luciano Tesi and Andrea Boattini at the Osservatorio Astronomico della Montagna Pistoiese ( IAU code 104) in Tuscany .
The asteroid was named on January 24, 2000 after the Italian amateur astronomer Augusto Testa (* 1950).
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Testa: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (11667) Testa in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (11667) Testa in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).