(9427) Righini

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Asteroid
(9427) Righini
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 2.9967  AU
eccentricity 0.0938
Perihelion - aphelion 2.7155 AU - 3.2778 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 10.9386 °
Length of the ascending node 142.8554 °
Argument of the periapsis 157.9781 °
Sidereal period 5.19 a
Mean orbital velocity 17.20 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness 13.0 likes
history
Explorer Ulisse Munari
Maura Tombelli
Date of discovery February 14, 1996
Another name 1996 CV 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.

(9427) Righini is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on February 14, 1996 by the Italian astronomers Ulisse Munari and Maura Tombelli at the Osservatorio Astrofisico di Asiago Cima Ekar ( IAU code 098) on the Asiago plateau , 90 km northwest of Padua , 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.

(9427) Righini was named on July 28, 1999 after the Italian astronomer and solar physicist Guglielmo Righini (1908–1978).

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Individual evidence

  1. The family affiliation of (9427) Righini 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)