- 34696 Risoldi
Infobox Planet
minorplanet=yes
physical_characteristics = yes
bgcolour = #c0c0ff
name = (34696) Risoldi
semimajor = 2.5367752 AU
eccentricity = 0.1311205
period = (4.04 a)
axial_tilt = 13.37614°
mean_anomaly = 317.58300°
arg_peri = 207.21056°
abs_magnitude = 13.8
asc_node = 291.02067°(34696) Risoldi is a minor planet discovered on July 21, 2001 by A. Boattini and M. Tombelli at San Marcello Pistoiese (Italy).
Origin of Name
The planet was named after Vairo Risoldi (b. 1951), an amateur astronomer at the S. Lucia Stroncone Observatory. Thanks to his skills in electronics and computer science, he made the telescope control interface and various software packages for the astrometric reduction of CCD frames, extensively used by other Italian teams as well.
External links
* [http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/MPCORB.html "MPC Orbit (MPCORB) Database" (orbital data source)]
* [http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=PAGENAME - Data from "Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Small-Body Database"]
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