9949 Brontosaurus
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| Discovery | |||||||||||||
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| Discovered by | E. W. Elst | ||||||||||||
| Discovery date | 22 September 1990 | ||||||||||||
| Designations | |||||||||||||
| MPC designation | 9949 Brontosaurus | ||||||||||||
Named after | Brontosaurus | ||||||||||||
| 1990 SK6, 1978 GT1, 1985 DM1, 1992 BS | |||||||||||||
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |||||||||||||
| Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5) | |||||||||||||
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |||||||||||||
| Observation arc | 13757 days (37.66 yr) | ||||||||||||
| Aphelion | 2.4978881 AU (373.67874 Gm) | ||||||||||||
| Perihelion | 2.2115254 AU (330.83949 Gm) | ||||||||||||
| 2.3547068 AU (352.25912 Gm) | |||||||||||||
| Eccentricity | 0.0608065 | ||||||||||||
| 3.61 yr (1319.8 d) | |||||||||||||
| 158.9549° | |||||||||||||
| 0° 16m 21.977s / day | |||||||||||||
| Inclination | 7.703259° | ||||||||||||
| 29.84074° | |||||||||||||
| 174.51029° | |||||||||||||
| Earth MOID | 1.20681 AU (180.536 Gm) | ||||||||||||
| Jupiter MOID | 2.4597 AU (367.97 Gm) | ||||||||||||
| Jupiter Tisserand parameter | 3.541 | ||||||||||||
| Physical characteristics | |||||||||||||
| Dimensions | ~17km[2] | ||||||||||||
| ~0.01 | |||||||||||||
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| 13.8 | |||||||||||||
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9949 Brontosaurus is a main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun once every 3.61 years.[1]
Discovered on September 22, 1990 by E. W. Elst it was given the provisional designation "1990 SK6". It was later renamed "Brontosaurus" after Brontosaurus, a genus of dinosaur that is closely related to Apatosaurus.
References
- 1 2 "9949 Brontosaurus (1990 SK6)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
- ↑ Tedesco E.F.; Noah P.V.; Noah M.; Price S.D. "The supplemental IRAS minor planet survey (SIMPS)".
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