(10605) Guidoni

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Asteroid
(10605) Guidoni
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  September 30, 2012 ( JD 2,456,200.5)
Orbit type Main belt asteroid
Asteroid family Koronis family
Major semi-axis 2.9482  AU
eccentricity 0.1144
Perihelion - aphelion 2.6109 AU - 3.2854 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 0.9447 °
Sidereal period 5.06 a
Mean orbital velocity 17.34 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness 13.3 mag
history
Explorer Valter Giuliani
Francesco Manca
Date of discovery November 3, 1996
Another name 1996 VC 1 , 1991 VC 17 , 1993 DH 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.

(10605) Guidoni is an asteroid of the main belt discovered on November 3, 1996 by the Italian astronomers Valter Giuliani and Francesco Manca at the Osservatorio Astronomico Sormano ( IAU code 587) in Sormano .

The asteroid was named after the Italian physicist and astronaut Umberto Guidoni (* 1954), who carried out electrodynamic experiments on energy generation with the tethered satellite system on his shuttle flight on board the Columbia in 1996 .

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