- 9915 Potanin
Infobox Planet
minorplanet = yes
width = 25em
bgcolour = #FFFFC0
apsis =
name = 9915 Potanin
symbol =
caption = Orbit of 9915 Potanin (blue), planets (red) and theSun (black). The outermost planet visible isJupiter .
discovery = yes
discovery_ref =
discoverer =N. S. Chernykh
discovered =September 8 ,1977
designations = yes
mp_name = 9915 Potanin
alt_names = mp|1977 RD|2, mp|1982 SP|5, mp|1987 RS|2
mp_category =
orbit_ref =
epoch =October 27 ,2007
aphelion = 3.4925053 AU
perihelion = 2.3977123 AU
semimajor = 2.9451088 AU
eccentricity = 0.1858663
period = 1846.0797190d
avg_speed =
inclination = 3.2004°
asc_node = 50.30313°
mean_anomaly = 323.16002°
arg_peri = 339.89329°
satellites =
physical_characteristics = yes
dimensions = ~32.9 km [cite web|url = http://www.iop.org/EJ/article/1538-3881/123/2/1056/FP206.txt?request-id=ZkkEm1jA3BGTV3i82wi7Kg|title = The supplemental IRAS minor planet survey (SIMPS)|author = Tedesco E.F., Noah P.V., Noah M., Price S.D.]
mass =
density =
surface_grav =
escape_velocity =
sidereal_day =
axial_tilt =
pole_ecliptic_lat =
pole_ecliptic_lon =
albedo = ~0.01
temperatures=yes
temp_name1 =Kelvin
mean_temp_1 =
max_temp_1 =
temp_name2 =Celsius
max_temp_2 =
spectral_type =C-type asteroid [cite web|url = http://people.roma2.infn.it/~masi/sdss_smass/|title = Search for Unusual Spectroscopic Candidates Among 40313 minor planets from the 3rd Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Moving Object Catalog|author = Gianluca Masi, Sergio Foglia & Richard P. Binzel]
abs_magnitude = 12.79915 Potanin is a C-type
main belt asteroid . Itorbit s theSun once every 5.05 years. [cite web|url = http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=9915|title = 9915 Potanin (1977 RD2)|work = JPL Small-Body Database Browser|publisher =NASA /JPL |accessdate = 2008-02-01]Discovered on
September 8 ,1977 by Nikolai Chernykh, it was given theprovisional designation "mp|1977 RD|2". It was later renamed "Potanin" after Grigorij Potanin, a Russian explorer ofSiberia . [MPC 42359 "Minor Planet Center"]References
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