(8106) Carpino
Asteroid (8106) Carpino |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 2.4118 AU |
eccentricity | 0.2168 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 1.8889 AU - 2.9347 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 9.7003 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 296.1653 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 296.2220 ° |
Sidereal period | 3.75 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 19.18 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 13.5 likes |
history | |
Explorer |
Marco Cavagna Piero Sicoli |
Date of discovery | December 23, 1994 |
Another name | 1994 YB , 1989 OX |
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. |
(8106) Carpino is an asteroid of the main belt , which was discovered on December 23, 1994 by the Italian astronomers Marco Cavagna and Piero Sicoli at the Osservatorio Astronomico Sormano ( IAU code 587).
The asteroid was named on February 11, 1998 after Mario Carpino (* 1957), an astronomer at the Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera . He studied the dynamics of the planetary system in the LONGSTOP and SPACEGUARD projects and became its first secretary in 1996 when the Spaceguard Foundation was founded in Rome .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Carpino: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Carpino in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (8106) Carpino in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).