(9523) Torino
| Asteroid (9523) Torino | |
|---|---|
| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid | 
| Asteroid family | Hertha family | 
| Major semi-axis | 2.4497 AU | 
| eccentricity | 0.1324 | 
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.1252 AU - 2.7741 AU | 
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.9339 ° | 
| Length of the ascending node | 145.3267 ° | 
| Argument of the periapsis | 19.3583 ° | 
| Sidereal period | 3.83 a | 
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.4 mag | 
| history | |
| Explorer | H. Debehogne G. de Sanctis | 
| Date of discovery | March 5th 1981 | 
| Another name | 1981 EE 1 , 1977 DC, | 
| 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. | |
(9523) Torino is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 5 March 1981 by the astronomer Henri DEBEHOGNE and Giovanni de Sanctis at the La Silla Observatory ( IAU code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile was discovered.
The celestial body belongs to the Nysa group, a group of asteroids named after (44) Nysa (also called the Hertha family, after (135) Hertha ).
The asteroid was named on January 30, 2010 after the Italian city of Turin , the administrative seat of the Piedmont region and headquarters of the Italian automotive industry.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)
Web links
- Asteroid Torino: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Torino in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9523) Torino in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
