9995 Alouette
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File:AnimatedOrbitOf9995Alouette.gif | |||||||||||||
Discovery[1] | |||||||||||||
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Discovered by | C. J. van Houten, I. van Houten-Groeneveld & T. Gehrels | ||||||||||||
Discovery date | 24 September 1960 | ||||||||||||
Designations | |||||||||||||
Named after
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Alouette 1 | ||||||||||||
4805 P-L, 1981 EP22 | |||||||||||||
Orbital characteristics[2] | |||||||||||||
Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5) | |||||||||||||
Uncertainty parameter 0 | |||||||||||||
Observation arc | 23709 days (64.91 yr) | ||||||||||||
Aphelion | 2.7741527 AU (415.00734 Gm) | ||||||||||||
Perihelion | 2.0073168 AU (300.29032 Gm) | ||||||||||||
2.3907348 AU (357.64884 Gm) | |||||||||||||
Eccentricity | 0.1603766 | ||||||||||||
3.70 yr (1350.2 d) | |||||||||||||
122.43917° | |||||||||||||
Inclination | 2.313074° | ||||||||||||
20.877950° | |||||||||||||
198.17238° | |||||||||||||
Earth MOID | 0.999228 AU (149.4824 Gm) | ||||||||||||
Jupiter MOID | 2.19848 AU (328.888 Gm) | ||||||||||||
Physical characteristics | |||||||||||||
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S-type asteroid[3] | |||||||||||||
15.0 | |||||||||||||
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9995 Alouette is an S-type main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun once every 3.69 years.[2]
Discovered on September 24, 1960 by C. J. van Houten and I. van Houten-Groeneveld on archived photographic plates made by T. Gehrels, it was given the provisional designation 4805 P-L. It was later renamed Alouette in honour of Alouette-1, the first Canadian satellite.
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External links
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- Main-belt asteroids
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- Discoveries by Cornelis Johannes van Houten
- Discoveries by Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld
- Discoveries by Tom Gehrels
- Astronomical objects discovered in 1960
- Discoveries by the Palomar–Leiden survey
- S-type asteroids