1421 Esperanto

Infobox Planet
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name = Esperanto
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discovery = yes
discovery_ref =
discoverer = Vaisala, Y.
discovery_site = Turku
discovered = March 18, 1936
designations = yes
mp_name = 1421
alt_names = 1936 FQ
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orbit_ref =
epoch = May 14, 2008
aphelion = 3.3424400
perihelion = 2.8488276
semimajor =
eccentricity = 0.0797272
period = 1989.4031128
avg_speed =
inclination = 9.80350
asc_node = 42.80741
mean_anomaly = 68.78660
arg_peri = 166.23794
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albedo = 0.0714
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abs_magnitude = 10.30

1421 Esperanto (1936 FQ) is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on March 18, 1936 by Vaisala, Y. at Turku. It is named after Esperanto, as the other asteroid 1462 Zamenhof has been named by the same person after L. L. Zamenhof, the creator of this language.

External links

* [http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=1421+Esperanto JPL Small-Body Database Browser on 1421 Esperanto]