9996 ANS
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| Discovery[1] | |||||||||||||
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| Discovered by | C. J. van Houten, I. van Houten-Groeneveld & T. Gehrels | ||||||||||||
| Discovery date | 17 October 1960 | ||||||||||||
| Designations | |||||||||||||
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Named after
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Astronomical Netherlands Satellite | ||||||||||||
| 9070 P-L, 1974 SH2, 1996 GP17 | |||||||||||||
| Orbital characteristics[2] | |||||||||||||
| Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5) | |||||||||||||
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |||||||||||||
| Observation arc | 20015 days (54.80 yr) | ||||||||||||
| Aphelion | 3.4542403 AU (516.74699 Gm) | ||||||||||||
| Perihelion | 2.135808 AU (319.5123 Gm) | ||||||||||||
| 2.7950240 AU (418.12964 Gm) | |||||||||||||
| Eccentricity | 0.2358536 | ||||||||||||
| 4.67 yr (1706.8 d) | |||||||||||||
| 285.71816° | |||||||||||||
| Inclination | 7.661721° | ||||||||||||
| 209.33625° | |||||||||||||
| 166.42782° | |||||||||||||
| Earth MOID | 1.13663 AU (170.037 Gm) | ||||||||||||
| Jupiter MOID | 2.01394 AU (301.281 Gm) | ||||||||||||
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| C-type asteroid[3] | |||||||||||||
| 13.6 | |||||||||||||
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9996 ANS is a C-type main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun once every 4.68 years.[2]
Discovered on October 17, 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 9070 P-L. It was later renamed in honour of the Astronomical Netherlands Satellite, an X-ray and gamma ray telescope located in space.
References
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- 9996 ANS at the JPL Small-Body Database
