(9897) Malerba
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Asteroid (9897) Malerba |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.2230 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2017 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.7745 AU - 2.6715 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 6.3687 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 126.8311 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 227.4616 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.31 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.97 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.3 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Maura Tombelli Ulisse Munari |
| Date of discovery | February 14, 1996 |
| Another name | 1996 CX 7 , 1994 PQ 2 , 1994 RQ 1 |
| 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. | |
(9897) Malerba is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on February 14, 1996 by the Italian astronomers Maura Tombelli and Ulisse Munari at the Osservatorio Astrofisico di Asiago Cima Ekar ( IAU code 098).
The asteroid was named on July 26, 2000 in honor of the Italian engineer , physicist and former astronaut Franco Malerba (* 1946), who was the first Italian to fly into space on the STS-46 space shuttle mission .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Malerba: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Malerba in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (9897) Malerba in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).