(16766) Righi
Asteroid (16766) Righi |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Asteroid family | Gefion family |
Major semi-axis | 2.7721 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1186 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.4433 AU - 3.1009 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 9.5229 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 155.7441 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 316.7134 ° |
Sidereal period | 4.62 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 17.89 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Medium diameter | 6.258 ± 0.133 km |
Albedo | 0.197 ± 0.035 |
Absolute brightness | 13.2 mag |
history | |
Explorer | V. Goretti |
Date of discovery | October 18, 1996 |
Another name | 1996 UP , 1999 YES 84 |
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. |
(16766) Righi is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 18 October 1996 by the Italian Amateur Astronomers Vittorio Goretti , from his private observatory in Pianoro from ( IAU code was discovered 610).
The asteroid belongs to the Gefion family, a group of asteroids of the central main belt named after (1272) Gefion . The group used to be called the Ceres family (after (1) Ceres , Vincenzo Zappalà 1995) and the Minerva family (after (93) Minerva , AstDyS-2 database).
The celestial body was named on March 9, 2001 after the Italian physicist Augusto Righi (1850–1920), who continued Heinrich Hertz's research and who inspired his student Guglielmo Marconi with these findings .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)
Web links
- Asteroid Righi: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (16766) Righi in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (16766) Righi in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).