(14104) Delpino
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Asteroid (14104) Delpino |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Veritas family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1619 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0592 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.9746 AU - 3.3492 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 9.0445 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 359.0038 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 260.9256 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.62 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.5 likes |
| history | |
| Explorer | Valter Giuliani |
| Date of discovery | October 2, 1997 |
| Another name | 1997 TV , 1986 VP 3 |
| 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. | |
(14104) Delpino is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on October 2, 1997 by the Italian astronomer Valter Giuliani at the Osservatorio Astronomico Sormano ( IAU code 587) in the Lombard foothills near Sormano .
The asteroid is a member of the Veritas family, a group of asteroids named after (490) Veritas and probably formed 8.3 (± 0.5) million years ago when an asteroid with a diameter of 150 km broke apart.
(14104) Delpino was named on November 24, 2007 after the Italian astronomer Federico Ernesto Delpino (1946–2007), who researched at the University of Bologna in the fields of X-rays and cosmic microwave background radiation .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Delpino: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (14104) Delpino in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (14104) Delpino in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)
- ↑ Kenneth A. Farley , David Vokrouhlický , William Bottke , David Nesvorný : A late Miocene dust shower from the break-up of an asteroid in the main belt . Nature , Vol. 439, pp. 295ff, January 19, 2006 (English)