9906 Tintoretto is a mid-sized Eunomian asteroid that orbits the Sun once every 4.24 years.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.
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apoapsis (km)
4.62258e+11
orbital period (μ)
1.33923e+08
periapsis (km)
3.21985e+11
absolute magnitude
13.2
discovery date
1960-09-26
discoverer
Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld
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