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Discovered by | C. J. van Houten, I. van Houten-Groeneveld & T. Gehrels | ||||||||||||
Discovery date | 17 October 1960 | ||||||||||||
Designations | |||||||||||||
Named after
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Astronomical Netherlands Satellite | ||||||||||||
9070 P-L, 1974 SH2, 1996 GP17 | |||||||||||||
Orbital characteristics | |||||||||||||
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° | |||||||||||||
0° 12m 39.326s / day | |||||||||||||
Inclination | 7.661721° | ||||||||||||
209.33625° | |||||||||||||
166.42782° | |||||||||||||
Earth MOID | 1.13663 AU (170.037 Gm) | ||||||||||||
Jupiter MOID | 2.01394 AU (301.281 Gm) | ||||||||||||
Jupiter Tisserand parameter | 3.273 | ||||||||||||
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C-type asteroid | |||||||||||||
13.6 | |||||||||||||
9996 ANS is a C-type main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun once every 4.68 years.
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.