(16682) Donati
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Asteroid (16682) Donati |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.2442 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0505 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.1308 AU - 2.3577 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.2844 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 193.3959 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 260.3382 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.36 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.88 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 2.188 ± 0.139 km |
| Albedo | 0.307 ± 0.043 |
| Rotation period | 4.669 h |
| Absolute brightness | 15.0 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Marco Cavagna Valter Giuliani |
| Date of discovery | March 18, 1994 |
| Another name | 1994 FB |
| 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. | |
(16682) Donati is an asteroid of the main belt , which was discovered on March 18, 1994 by the Italian astronomers Marco Cavagna and Valter Giuliani at the Osservatorio Astronomico Sormano ( IAU code 587) in Sormano .
The asteroid was named on July 13, 2004 after the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Donati (1826–1873), who advanced the spectroscopy of celestial bodies. He was one of the first to investigate the spectrum of a comet and is the discoverer of six comets, including the C / 1858 L1 (Donati) which is visible to the naked eye .
He induced the government to build the Arcetri Observatory on a hill near Florence between 1860 and 1872 .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Donati: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (16682) Donati in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (16682) Donati in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).