(35461) Mazzucato
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Asteroid (35461) Mazzucato |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Vesta family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4597 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0988 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.2165 AU - 2.7028 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 5.4335 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 297.6783 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 287.1453 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.86 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.99 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 15.6 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Luciano Tesi Andrea Boattini |
| Date of discovery | February 26, 1998 |
| Another name | 1998 DM 23 , 1994 AP 4 |
| 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. | |
(35461) Mazzucato is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 26 February 1998 by the Italian astronomer Luciano Tesi and Andrea Boattini the Pistoia Mountains Astronomical Observatory ( IAU code 104) in San Marcello Pistoiese in Tuscany was discovered.
(35461) Mazzucato was named on July 21, 2005 after the Italian amateur astronomer Michele Mazzucato (* 1962), who wrote numerous articles and books with a focus on geodesy and astronomical topics as a member of several scientific associations .
See also
Web links
- (35461) Mazzucato in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (35461) Mazzucato in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- Discovery Circumstances of (35461) Mazzucato according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)