9911 Quantz
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| Discovered by | C. J. van Houten, I. van Houten-Groeneveld & T. Gehrels | ||||||||||||
| Discovery date | 29 September 1973 | ||||||||||||
| Designations | |||||||||||||
| MPC designation | 9911 Quantz | ||||||||||||
Named after | Johann Joachim Quantz | ||||||||||||
| 4129 T-2, 1986 GR, 1989 CL4 | |||||||||||||
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |||||||||||||
| Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5) | |||||||||||||
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |||||||||||||
| Observation arc | 15476 days (42.37 yr) | ||||||||||||
| Aphelion | 2.6327035 AU (393.84684 Gm) | ||||||||||||
| Perihelion | 1.9687603 AU (294.52235 Gm) | ||||||||||||
| 2.3007319 AU (344.18459 Gm) | |||||||||||||
| Eccentricity | 0.1442896 | ||||||||||||
| 3.49 yr (1274.7 d) | |||||||||||||
| 167.38905° | |||||||||||||
| 0° 16m 56.734s / day | |||||||||||||
| Inclination | 5.197440° | ||||||||||||
| 29.577050° | |||||||||||||
| 199.79202° | |||||||||||||
| Earth MOID | 0.959008 AU (143.4656 Gm) | ||||||||||||
| Jupiter MOID | 2.35282 AU (351.977 Gm) | ||||||||||||
| Jupiter Tisserand parameter | 3.572 | ||||||||||||
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| S-type asteroid[2] | |||||||||||||
| 14.4 | |||||||||||||
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9911 Quantz is an S-type main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun once every 3.49 years.[1]
Discovered on September 29, 1973 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld on photographic plates that had been taken by Tom Gehrels with the Samuel Oschin telescope at the Palomar Observatory, it was given the provisional designation "4129 T-2". It was later renamed "Quantz" after Johan Joachim Quantz, a 17th-century German music teacher and composer.[3]
References
- 1 2 "9911 Quantz (4129 T-2)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
- ↑ Gianluca Masi; Sergio Foglia & Richard P. Binzel. "Search for Unusual Spectroscopic Candidates Among 40313 minor planets from the 3rd Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Moving Object Catalog".
- ↑ MPC 34356 Minor Planet Center
External links
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