10830 Desforges
"Desforges" redirects here. For the French writer using that pen name, see Pierre Jean Baptiste Choudard Desforges.
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | E. W. Elst |
| Discovery site | European Southern Observatory |
| Discovery date | 20 October 1993 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 10830 |
| 1993 UT6 | |
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |
| Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 12405 days (33.96 yr) |
| Aphelion | 3.1252862 AU (467.53616 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 2.1974589 AU (328.73517 Gm) |
| 2.661373 AU (398.1357 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.1743137 |
| 4.34 yr (1585.8 d) | |
| 329.46083° | |
| 0° 13m 37.237s / day | |
| Inclination | 11.15441° |
| 178.73991° | |
| 308.06225° | |
| Earth MOID | 1.23086 AU (184.134 Gm) |
| Jupiter MOID | 1.99425 AU (298.336 Gm) |
| Jupiter Tisserand parameter | 3.337 |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 8.8036 h (0.36682 d) | |
| 13.7 | |
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10830 Desforges (1993 UT6) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 20, 1993, by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory. The asteroid is named for Jacques Desforges (1723–1791), a French priest who was imprisoned for eight months in 1758 in the Bastille, during which time he planned the construction of a flying machine.[1]
References
- 1 2 "10830 Desforges (1993 UT6)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
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