(11926) Orinoco

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( 11926 ) Orinoco is one of the inner main belt asteroid, which was discovered on 18 December 1992 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the Schmidt telescope of the French Observatoire de Calern in Grasse (IAU code 010).

Mean distance from the sun ( semimajor axis), eccentricity and inclination of the orbital plane of the asteroid roughly correspond to the Vesta family, a large group of asteroids, named after ( 4) Vesta, the second largest asteroid and the third-largest celestial body of the main belt.

( 11926 ) Orinoco was named after the South American Orinoco River on October 4, 2009.

Orbital inclination Longitude of the ascending node Argument of periapsis Intrinsic brightness Minor planet designation France Centre de recherches en géodynamique et astrométrie (4) Vesta Jet Propulsion Laboratory NASA Pasadena, California Minor Planet Center International Astronomical Union Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge (Massachusetts)
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