(18542) Broglio
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Asteroid (18542) Broglio |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Maria family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.5820 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0635 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.4181 AU - 2.7459 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 14.9981 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.15 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.53 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.8 mag |
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| Explorer |
Augusto Testa Francesco Manca |
| Date of discovery | December 29, 1996 |
| Another name | 1996 YP 3 , 1990 HV 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. | |
(18542) Broglio is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 29 December 1996 by the Italian astronomer Augusto Testa and Francesco Manca at the Osservatorio Astronomico Sormano ( IAU code 587) in Sormano was discovered.
The asteroid was named after the Italian aerospace engineer and dean of the faculty of aerospace engineering at the University of La Sapienza in Rome , Luigi Broglio named (1911-2001), who in the 1960s in cooperation with NASA on "San Marco project “Worked. The project had the construction of Italian satellites and a rocket launch site on a platform ( San Marco platform ) off the coast of Kenya.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Broglio: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (18542) Broglio in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (18542) Broglio in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).