9962 Pfau
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| File:AnimatedOrbitOf9962Pfau.gif | |||||||||||||
| Discovery | |||||||||||||
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| Discovered by | F. Borngen | ||||||||||||
| Discovery date | 28 December 1991 | ||||||||||||
| Designations | |||||||||||||
| MPC designation | 9962 Pfau | ||||||||||||
| 1991 YL1, 1996 FJ3, 1996 HN26 | |||||||||||||
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |||||||||||||
| Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5) | |||||||||||||
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |||||||||||||
| Observation arc | 8624 days (23.61 yr) | ||||||||||||
| Aphelion | 2.7202457 AU (406.94296 Gm) | ||||||||||||
| Perihelion | 2.0455608 AU (306.01154 Gm) | ||||||||||||
| 2.3829033 AU (356.47726 Gm) | |||||||||||||
| Eccentricity | 0.1415678 | ||||||||||||
| 3.68 yr (1343.6 d) | |||||||||||||
| 148.82025° | |||||||||||||
| Inclination | 0.7907237° | ||||||||||||
| 312.82998° | |||||||||||||
| 200.13328° | |||||||||||||
| Earth MOID | 1.05608 AU (157.987 Gm) | ||||||||||||
| Jupiter MOID | 2.27737 AU (340.690 Gm) | ||||||||||||
| Physical characteristics | |||||||||||||
| Dimensions | ~19.5 km[2] | ||||||||||||
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| 14.7 | |||||||||||||
9962 Pfau is a main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun once every 3.68 years.[1]
Discovered on December 28, 1991 by F. Borngen, it was given the provisional designation "1991 YL1". It was later renamed "Pfau" after Werner Pfau, a former director of the Jena University Observatory and former chairman of the Astronomische Gesellschaft.[3]
References
External links
- 9962 Pfau at the JPL Small-Body Database
