(11166) Anatolefrance Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 27 February 1998 by E. W. Elst at La Silla.
Anatole France ( Anatole Thibault, 1844-1924) was an ironic and skeptical French writer. In his L´Eglise et la République (1904) he severely attacked Napoleon for his “Concordat” with the Church. In 1896 he was elected to the French Academy, and in 1921 he won the Nobel Prize for literature.Naming citation (20000523/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Anatolefrance is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Anatolefrance is 2.71 au from the Sun and 3.39 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 11166 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 DF34 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 6.90 km (#7,765 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.162 |
| Rotation period | 6.47 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.87 |
| Orbital period | 3.62 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.36 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.96 – 2.76 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.169 |
| Inclination | 6.37° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.952 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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