(9905) Tiziano
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Asteroid (9905) Tiziano |
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| Orbit of (9905) Tiziano | |
| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Inner main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.4041 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1306 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0902 AU - 2.7180 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 12.7159 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 9.0939 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 130.8866 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | December 14, 2017 |
| Sidereal period | 3.73 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.13 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 5.239 (± 0.040) km |
| Albedo | 0.099 (± 0.016) |
| Absolute brightness | 14.4 mag |
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| Explorer |
Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld , Tom Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | September 24, 1960 |
| Another name | 4611 PL , 1990 TD 10 |
| 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. | |
(9905) Tiziano is an asteroid of the main inner belt that was discovered on September 24, 1960 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld . The discovery came about as part of the Palomar-Leiden survey , during which Tom Gehrels examined field plates recorded at the University of Leiden with the 120 cm Oschin Schmidt telescope of the Palomar observatory .
The mean diameter of the asteroid was calculated to be 5.239 (± 0.040) kilometers and the albedo to be 0.099 (± 0.016).
(9905) Tiziano was named on April 2, 1999 after Tiziano Vecellio , the leading exponent of Venetian painting of the 16th century and one of the main masters of the Italian High Renaissance , also known as Tiziano or Tizian .
Web links
- (9905) Tiziano in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (9905) Tiziano 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 by (9905) Tiziano according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)