(39864) Poggiali

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Asteroid
(39864) Poggiali
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  December 9, 2014 ( JD 2,457,000.5)
Orbit type Main belt asteroid
Asteroid family Eos family
Major semi-axis 2.9792  AU
eccentricity 0.0945
Perihelion - aphelion 2.6976 AU - 3.2609 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 11.2334 °
Length of the ascending node 110.7610 °
Argument of the periapsis 284.8279 °
Sidereal period 5.14 a
Physical Properties
Rotation period 8.36 h
Absolute brightness 13.9 likes
history
Explorer Franco Mallia
Mario Di Sora
Date of discovery February 26, 1998
Another name 1998 DH 20 , 1999 JD 138
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.

(39864) Poggiali is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on February 26, 1998 by the Italian astronomer Franco Mallia and the Italian amateur astronomer Mario Di Sora at the Campo Catino Observatory ( IAU code 468) in the province of Frosinone in the Italian region of Lazio has been discovered.

The asteroid belongs to the Eos family, a group of asteroids, which typically have large semiaxes from 2.95 to 3.1 AU , bounded inward by the Kirkwood gap of the 7: 3 resonance with Jupiter , and orbital inclinations between 8 ° and 12 °. The group is named after the asteroid (221) Eos . The family is believed to have emerged from a collision more than a billion years ago.

(39864) Poggiali was named on June 7, 2009 after the Italian aircraft navigator Maurizio Poggiali (1965–1997), who had a fatal accident on August 8, 1997 during a training flight .

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Individual evidence

  1. The family membership of (39864) Poggiali in the AstDyS-2 database (English)
  2. David Vokrouhlický , Miroslav Brož , Alessandro Morbidelli , William Bottke , David Nesvorný , Daniel Lazzaro, Andy Rivkin: Yarkovsky footprints in the Eos family ( PDF , English)