9938 Kretlow
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Discovery | |||||||||||||
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Discovered by | W. Landgraf | ||||||||||||
Discovery date | 18 May 1988 | ||||||||||||
Designations | |||||||||||||
MPC designation | 9938 Kretlow | ||||||||||||
1988 KA, 1982 VE2, 1985 QL | |||||||||||||
Orbital characteristics[1] | |||||||||||||
Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5) | |||||||||||||
Uncertainty parameter 0 | |||||||||||||
Observation arc | 12172 days (33.33 yr) | ||||||||||||
Aphelion | 2.5454872 AU (380.79947 Gm) | ||||||||||||
Perihelion | 1.7344121 AU (259.46436 Gm) | ||||||||||||
2.1399496 AU (320.13190 Gm) | |||||||||||||
Eccentricity | 0.1895080 | ||||||||||||
3.13 yr (1143.4 d) | |||||||||||||
277.78349° | |||||||||||||
0° 18m 53.447s / day | |||||||||||||
Inclination | 3.801314° | ||||||||||||
86.091439° | |||||||||||||
223.01332° | |||||||||||||
Earth MOID | 0.720184 AU (107.7380 Gm) | ||||||||||||
Jupiter MOID | 2.6947 AU (403.12 Gm) | ||||||||||||
Jupiter Tisserand parameter | 3.688 | ||||||||||||
Physical characteristics | |||||||||||||
Dimensions | ~13.5 km[2] | ||||||||||||
~0.01 | |||||||||||||
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14.4 | |||||||||||||
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9938 Kretlow is a main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun once every 3.13 years.[1]
Discovered on May 18, 1988 by W. Landgraf at the European Southern Observatory, it was given the provisional designation "1988 KA". It was later named "Kretlow" after Mike Kretlow, a student at the University of Siegen who studied comets and a longtime friend of the discoverer of 9938 Kretlow.[3]
References
- 1 2 "9938 Kretlow (1988 KA)". 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)".
- ↑ MPC 42359 Minor Planet Center
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