9793 Torvalds

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9793 Torvalds is an asteroid discovered on January 16 1996 by Spacewatch.The asteroid is named after Linus Torvalds a Finnish-American software engineer best known for initiating the development of the Linux kernel.

apoapsis (km)

3.91295e+11

average speed (km/s)

70956.0

orbital period (μ)

1.06833e+08

periapsis (km)

2.83259e+11

temperature (K)

185.0

absolute magnitude

15.2

albedo

0.1

discovery date

1996-01-16

discoverer

Spacewatch

epoch

March 6 2006 (JD 2453800.5)

former name

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