(8524) Paoloruffini
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Asteroid (8524) Paoloruffini |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3685 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1087 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.1110 AU - 2.6260 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 7.1905 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.65 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.35 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Eric Walter Elst |
| Date of discovery | 2nd September 1992 |
| Another name | 1992 RJ 3 , 1991 EK 8 , 1991 GS 11 |
| 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. | |
(8524) Paoloruffini is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 2 September 1992 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory ( IAU code was discovered 809).
The asteroid was named on April 2, 1999 after the Italian mathematician and physician Paolo Ruffini (1765-1822).
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Paoloruffini: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Paoloruffini in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (8524) Paoloruffini in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).