(16766) Righi

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Asteroid
(16766) Righi
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  March 23, 2018 ( JD 2,458,200.5)
Orbit type Main belt asteroid
Asteroid family Gefion family
Major semi-axis 2.7721  AU
eccentricity 0.1186
Perihelion - aphelion 2.4433 AU - 3.1009 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 9.5229 °
Length of the ascending node 155.7441 °
Argument of the periapsis 316.7134 °
Sidereal period 4.62 a
Mean orbital velocity 17.89 km / s
Physical Properties
Medium diameter 6.258 ± 0.133 km
Albedo 0.197 ± 0.035
Absolute brightness 13.2 mag
history
Explorer V. Goretti
Date of discovery October 18, 1996
Another name 1996 UP , 1999 YES 84
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.

(16766) Righi is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 18 October 1996 by the Italian Amateur Astronomers Vittorio Goretti , from his private observatory in Pianoro from ( IAU code was discovered 610).

The asteroid belongs to the Gefion family, a group of asteroids of the central main belt named after (1272) Gefion . The group used to be called the Ceres family (after (1) Ceres , Vincenzo Zappalà 1995) and the Minerva family (after (93) Minerva , AstDyS-2 database).

The celestial body was named on March 9, 2001 after the Italian physicist Augusto Righi (1850–1920), who continued Heinrich Hertz's research and who inspired his student Guglielmo Marconi with these findings .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)

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