10001 Palermo

10001 Palermo
Discovery[1][2]
Discovered byL. Chernykh
Discovery siteCrimean Astrophysical Obs.
Discovery date8 October 1969
Designations
(10001) Palermo
Named after
Palermo (Italian city)[1]
1969 TM1 · 1991 RS27
main-belt[1][3] · (inner)
Vestian[4][5]
Orbital characteristics[3]
Epoch 23 March 2018 (JD 2458200.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc63.50 yr (23,192 d)
Aphelion2.6955 AU
Perihelion2.0579 AU
2.3767 AU
Eccentricity0.1341
3.66 yr (1,338 d)
66.907°
0° 16m 8.4s / day
Inclination7.4247°
40.160°
357.81°
Physical characteristics
4.123±0.657 km[6]
4.31 km (calculated)[4]
213.368±2.0136 h[7]
0.20 (assumed)[4]
0.341±0.134[6]
S (assumed)[4]
13.71±0.42[8]
13.745±0.006 (R)[7]
13.80[6] · 13.9[3] · 14.19[4]

10001 Palermo, provisional designation 1969 TM1, is a Vestian asteroid and a slow rotator from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) in diameter. It was discovered on 8 October 1969, by Soviet–Russian astronomer Lyudmila Chernykh using a 0.4-meter double astrograph at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnij on the Crimean peninsula.[2] The asteroid is likely elongated in shape and has a long rotation period of 213 hours.[4] It was named for the Italian city of Palermo to commemorate the discovery of Ceres two hundred years earlier.[1]

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