(78652) Quero
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Asteroid (78652) Quero |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Middle main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.6097 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1271 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.2780 AU - 2.9415 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 7.5818 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 316.6032 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 101.4521 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | October 23, 2015 |
| Sidereal period | 4.22 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 15.2 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | CINEOS |
| Date of discovery | October 3, 2002 |
| Another name | 2002 TG 62 , 2000 ES 198 |
| 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. | |
(78652) Quero is an asteroid of the central main belt , which was discovered on October 3, 2002 as part of the Campo Imperatore Near-Earth Object Survey (CINEOS, IAU code 599) at a Schmidt telescope on the Italian high plateau Campo Imperatore .
The asteroid was named on June 18, 2008 after the Italian town of Quero (part of the municipality of Quero Vas ). Quero is the hometown of the parents of the Italian astronomer Fabrizio Bernardi , who worked for the CINEOS project.
Web links
- (78652) Quero in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (78652) Quero in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)
- Discovery Circumstances of (78652) Quero according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)