9906 Tintoretto

Infobox Planet
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name = 9906 Tintoretto
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caption = Orbit of 9906 Tintoretto (blue), planets (red) and the Sun (black). The outermost planet visible is Jupiter.
discovery = yes
discovery_ref =
discoverer = C. J. van Houten, I. van Houten-Groeneveld & T. Gehrels
discovered = September 26, 1960
designations = yes
mp_name = 9906 Tintoretto
alt_names = 6523 P-L, mp|1997 EP|47
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orbit_ref =
epoch = October 27, 2007
aphelion = 3.0900016 AU
perihelion = 2.1523338 AU
semimajor = 2.6211677 AU
eccentricity = 0.1788645
period = 1550.0319307 d
avg_speed =
inclination = 13.39043°
asc_node = 13.70038°
mean_anomaly = 50.62815°
arg_peri = 326.47094°
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physical_characteristics = yes
dimensions = ~17.8 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.]
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albedo = ~0.01
temperatures=yes
temp_name1 = Kelvin
mean_temp_1 =
max_temp_1 =
temp_name2 = Celsius
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spectral_type =
abs_magnitude = 13.2

9906 Tintoretto is a main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun once every 4.24 years. [cite web | url = http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=9906 | title = 9906 Tintoretto (6523 P-L) | work = JPL Small-Body Database Browser | publisher = NASA/JPL | accessdate = 2008-02-06] It is associated with the Eunomia family of asteroids. [cite web|url = http://www.psi.edu/pds/resource/family.html|author = Zappala, V., Ph. Bendjoya, A. Cellino, P. Farinella, and C. Froeschle|title = Asteroid Dynamical Families.|work = EAR-A-5-DDR-FAMILY-V4.1|publisher = NASA Planetary Data System|date = 1997]

Discovered on September 26, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld on photographic plates made by Tom Gehrels at the Palomar Observatory with the Samuel Oschin telescope, it was given the provisional designation "6523 P-L". It was later renamed "Tintoretto" after Venetian painter Jacopo Robusti, who was known as "Tintoretto". [MPC 34356 "Minor Planet Center"]

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