(35270) Molinari
Asteroid (35270) Molinari |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Asteroid family | Martes family |
Major semi-axis | 2.3864 AU |
eccentricity | 0.2426 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 1.8074 AU - 2.9654 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.9642 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 210.1401 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 106.4401 ° |
Sidereal period | 3.69 a |
Physical Properties | |
Medium diameter | 4.963 ± 0.032 km |
Albedo | 0.041 ± 0.004 |
Absolute brightness | 15.5 mag |
history | |
Explorer | V. Giuliani and P. Chiavenna |
Date of discovery | September 7, 1996 |
Another name | 1996 RL |
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. |
(35270) Molinari is an asteroid of the main belt discovered on September 7, 1996 by Valter Giuliani and Paolo Chiavenna at the Osservatorio Astronomico Sormano ( IAU code 587) in Sormano in the Italian province of Como in the Lombardy region .
The celestial body belongs to the Erigone family, a group of asteroids named after (163) Erigone . Within the Erigone family, (5026) Martes is the namesake of a separate subfamily
The asteroid was named on December 10, 2011 after the Italian astronomer Emilio Molinari (* 1963), who is currently director of the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo and the Rapid Eye Mount Observatory .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Database with the assignment of 12,487 asteroids to asteroid groups (English)
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)
Web links
- (35270) Molinari in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (35270) Molinari in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)