(12410) Donald Duck
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Asteroid (12410) Donald Duck |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4267 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1635 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0300 AU - 2.8235 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 8.1213 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 345.8314 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 140.3838 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.78 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 5.312 ± 0.221 km |
| Albedo | 0.099 |
| Absolute brightness | 15.2 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Piero Sicoli , Pierangelo Ghezzi |
| Date of discovery | September 26, 1995 |
| Another name | 1995 SM 3 , 1993 DE |
| 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. | |
(12410) Donald Duck is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on September 26, 1995 by amateur astronomers Piero Sicoli and Pierangelo Ghezzi at the Osservatorio Astronomico Sormano ( observatory code 587) near the village of Sormano in the province of Como .
The asteroid was named on September 23, 2010 after the cartoon character Donald Duck , who came from the US Disney studio .
See also
Web links
- (12410) Donald Duck: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA (English)
- (12410) Donald Duck in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (12410) Donald Duck in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).