(214819) Gianotti
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Asteroid (214819) Gianotti |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main outer belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.0895 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0599 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.9044 AU - 3.2745 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 16.5700 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 22.4108 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 354.8695 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.43 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 15.3 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Vincenzo Silvano Casulli |
| Date of discovery | November 10, 2006 |
| Another name | 2006 VK 2 , 2000 SS 34 |
| 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. | |
(214819) Gianotti is an asteroid of the main outer belt , which was discovered by the Italian amateur astronomer Vincenzo Silvano Casulli on November 10, 2006 at the observatory in the district of Vallemare ( IAU code A55) in the municipality of Borbona in the province of Rieti . The asteroid had already been sighted on September 23 and October 1, 2000 under the provisional designation 2000 SS 34 at the Lincoln Laboratory Experimental Test System in Socorro , New Mexico as part of the Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) project.
(214819) Gianotti was named on July 22, 2013 after the Italian particle physicist Fabiola Gianotti , who was the spokesperson for the ATLAS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN and who announced the discovery of a particle compatible with the Higgs boson in 2012 .
See also
Web links
- (214819) Gianotti in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (214819) Gianotti in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- Discovery Circumstances by (214819) Gianotti according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ (214819) Gianotti at the IAU Minor Planet Center (English)
- ↑ In 2008 the asteroid of the middle main belt (15332) was named CERN after CERN .