9550 Victorblanco
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9550 Victorblanco is a main belt asteroid
with an orbital period
of 1571.4391974 days (4.30 years).
The asteroid, named after Puerto Rican astronomer Victor Manuel Blanco
, was discovered on October 15, 1985.
Asteroid
Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...
with an orbital period
Orbital period
The orbital period is the time taken for a given object to make one complete orbit about another object.When mentioned without further qualification in astronomy this refers to the sidereal period of an astronomical object, which is calculated with respect to the stars.There are several kinds of...
of 1571.4391974 days (4.30 years).
The asteroid, named after Puerto Rican astronomer Victor Manuel Blanco
Victor Manuel Blanco
Dr. Víctor Manuel Blanco, PhD, was a Puerto Rican astronomer who in 1959 discovered "Blanco 1," a galactic cluster. Blanco was the second Director of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, which had the largest telescope in the Southern Hemisphere at the time. In 1995, the telescope...
, was discovered on October 15, 1985.