(5596) Morbidelli

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Asteroid
Morbidelli
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  December 9, 2014 ( JD 2,457,000.5)
Orbit type Main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis 2.1750  AU
eccentricity 0.0838
Perihelion - aphelion 1.9929 AU - 2.3572 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 4.2355 °
Length of the ascending node 261.8089 °
Argument of the periapsis 220.5593 °
Sidereal period 3.21 a
Mean orbital velocity 20.19 km / s
Physical Properties
Rotation period 5.4000 h
Absolute brightness 13.2 mag
history
Explorer Henry E. Holt
Date of discovery August 7, 1991
Another name 1991 PQ 10 , 1938 AB, 1981 NF, 1982 YP 4 , 1985 UO 1 , 1988 VV 7
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.

(5596) Morbidelli is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 7 August 1991 by the American US astronomers Henry E. Holt at Palomar Observatory ( IAU code 675) in California was discovered. The first sightings of the asteroid had already been made in January 1938 under the provisional designation 1938 AB at the Konkoly Observatory in Budapest .

It was named in honor of the Italian astronomer and planetologist Alessandro Morbidelli (* 1966).

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Individual evidence

  1. Observations by (5596) Morbidelli on minorplanetcenter.net (English)