9915 Potanin
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| Discovery | |||||||||||||
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| Discovered by | N. S. Chernykh | ||||||||||||
| Discovery date | 8 September 1977 | ||||||||||||
| Designations | |||||||||||||
| MPC designation | 9915 Potanin | ||||||||||||
| 1977 RD2, 1982 SP5, 1987 RS2 | |||||||||||||
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |||||||||||||
| Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5) | |||||||||||||
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |||||||||||||
| Observation arc | 14060 days (38.49 yr) | ||||||||||||
| Aphelion | 3.5005352 AU (523.67261 Gm) | ||||||||||||
| Perihelion | 2.3834459 AU (356.55843 Gm) | ||||||||||||
| 2.9419906 AU (440.11553 Gm) | |||||||||||||
| Eccentricity | 0.1898526 | ||||||||||||
| 5.05 yr (1843.1 d) | |||||||||||||
| 187.90248° | |||||||||||||
| 0° 11m 43.145s / day | |||||||||||||
| Inclination | 3.199321° | ||||||||||||
| 50.114200° | |||||||||||||
| 340.11903° | |||||||||||||
| Earth MOID | 1.38774 AU (207.603 Gm) | ||||||||||||
| Jupiter MOID | 1.94196 AU (290.513 Gm) | ||||||||||||
| Jupiter Tisserand parameter | 3.243 | ||||||||||||
| Physical characteristics | |||||||||||||
| Dimensions | ~32.9 km[2] | ||||||||||||
| ~0.01 | |||||||||||||
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| C-type asteroid[3] | |||||||||||||
| 13.3 | |||||||||||||
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9915 Potanin is a C-type main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun once every 5.05 years.[1]
Discovered on September 8, 1977 by Nikolai Chernykh, it was given the provisional designation "1977 RD2". It was later renamed "Potanin" after Grigorij Potanin, a Russian explorer of Siberia.[4]
References
- 1 2 "9915 Potanin (1977 RD2)". 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)".
- ↑ 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 42359 Minor Planet Center
External links
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