9912 Donizetti is an S-type main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun once every 4.11 years. It is associated with the Rafita family of asteroids.Discovered on October 16 1977 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld on photographic plates taken by Tom Gehrels with the Samuel Oschin telescope at the Palomar Observatory it was given the provisional designation 2078 T-3. It was later renamed Donizetti after Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti.
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apoapsis (km)
4.39943e+11
orbital period (μ)
1.29662e+08
periapsis (km)
3.27578e+11
absolute magnitude
12.8
discovery date
1977-10-16
discoverer
Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld
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