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Discovery[1]
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| Discovered by | Marguerite Laugier |
| Discovery site | Nice, France |
| Discovery date | October 17, 1936 |
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Designations
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| MPC designation | 3568 |
| Named after | ASCII |
| Alternate name(s) | 1936 UB, 1975 WZ1 |
| Epoch February 8, 2011 | |
| Aphelion | 3.9025900 AU |
| Perihelion | 2.3826322 AU |
| Semi-major axis | 3.1426111 AU |
| Eccentricity | 0.2418304 |
| Orbital period | 2034.8592875 days |
| Mean anomaly | 164.95366° |
| Inclination | 19.43254° |
| Longitude of ascending node | 58.39713° |
| Argument of perihelion | 280.16168° |
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Physical characteristics
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| Absolute magnitude (H) | 12.1 |
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3568 ASCII is a small main belt asteroid discovered by Marguerite Laugier on October 17, 1936.
It was named (long after its discovery) in honor of the ASCII character encoding system that is used by most computers.
[edit] References
- ^ a b "3568 ASCII". JPL Small-Body Database. 2003-08-29. http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=3568+ASCII. Retrieved 18 December 2010.
[edit] External links
- NASA JPL Small-Body Database Browser on 3568 ASCII
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