(10866) Peru

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( 10866 ) Peru is an asteroid of the inner main belt, which by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory in Chile ( IAU code 809) was discovered on July 14, 1996. Unconfirmed sightings of the asteroid it had previously been several: April 1, 1976, the provisional designation 1976 GE at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj, on 1 November 1978 (1978 VL1 ) of the French Observatoire de Calern and in February 1991 (1991 CB2 ) at the French Observatoire de Haute -Provence.

Mean distance from the sun ( semimajor axis), eccentricity and inclination of the orbital plane of the asteroids are within the respective limits that are defined for the Nysa group, one named after (44 ) Nysa group of asteroids (also called Hertha family, according to (135 ) Hertha).

( 10866 ) Peru was named after the South American country of Peru on May 9, 2001.

Orbital inclination Longitude of the ascending node Argument of periapsis Orbital speed Intrinsic brightness Minor planet designation Crimean Astrophysical Observatory France Centre de recherches en géodynamique et astrométrie Haute-Provence Observatory (135) Hertha Jet Propulsion Laboratory NASA Pasadena, California Minor Planet Center International Astronomical Union Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge (Massachusetts)
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