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772 Tanete is a C-type asteroid located in the asteroid belt, orbiting the Sun. It was discovered on December 19, 1913, by Adam Massinger at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory. The object carries the provisional designations 1913 TR, 1936 NG, A902 WA, and A907 VG. In the sequence of numbered minor planets, it follows 771 Libera and is followed by 773 Irmintraud.
The asteroid has a diameter of 126.473 kilometers and a rotation period of 17.258 hours. Its orbital parameters include a semi-major axis of 2.999931042326612 AU, an eccentricity of 0.09528505456589936, and an inclination of 28.83302184628927 degrees. The periapsis is 2.714082449264585 AU, while the apoapsis is 3.285779635388639 AU. The absolute magnitude is 8.45. Sources list the albedo as either 0.0594 or 0.028.
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Small body data
772 Tanete (A913 YD)
- Orbit class
- Main-belt Asteroid
- Diameter
- 126.473 km
- Albedo
- 0.028
- Rotation period
- 17.258 h
- Absolute magnitude
- 8.450 H
- Earth MOID
- 1.730 AU
via NASA/JPL Small-Body Database
Key facts
- Discovered by
- A. Massinger
- Discovery site
- Heidelberg Obs.
- Discovery date
- 19 December 1913
- Named after
- Tanete, a place in Sulawesi
- Alternative designations
- 1913 TR
- Observation arc
- 101.93 yr (37230 d)
- Aphelion
- 3.2768 AU (490.20 Gm )
- Perihelion
- 2.7244 AU (407.56 Gm)
- Semi major axis
- 3.0006 AU (448.88 Gm)
- Orbital period sidereal
- 5.20 yr (1898.5 d )
- Mean anomaly
- 163.71 °
- Mean motion
- 0° 11 22.668 / day
- Inclination
- 28.854°
- Longitude of ascending node
- 63.832°
- Argument of perihelion
- 146.061°
- Earth moid
- 1.73811 AU (260.018 Gm)
- Jupiter moid
- 1.78259 AU (266.672 Gm)
- Mean radius
- 58.83 ± 2 km
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Encyclopedic overview
772 Tanete is an asteroid from the asteroid belt. Since 2004 it has been observed in stellar occultation four times. Its size is best described by an ellipsoid measuring 124.1±1.2 km x 116.1±1.2 km. Analysis of a light curve captured during 2014 shows a synodic rotation period of 17.258±0.001 h with an amplitude of 0.15 magnitude.
In 1984, a fly-by of 772 Tanete was considered for a Mariner Mark II rendezvous mission with the short period comet 22P/Kopff.
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