9911 Quantz is an S-type main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun once every 3.49 years.Discovered on September 29 1973 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld on photographic plates that had been taken by Tom Gehrels with the Samuel Oschin telescope at the Palomar Observatory it was given the provisional designation 4129 T-2. It was later renamed Quantz after Johan Joachim Quantz a 17th-century German music teacher and composer.
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apoapsis (km)
3.94253e+11
orbital period (μ)
1.10123e+08
periapsis (km)
2.94081e+11
absolute magnitude
14.3
discovery date
1973-09-29
discoverer
Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld
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