(11968) Demariotte Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 12 August 1994 by E. W. Elst at La Silla.
Edmé de Mariotte (1620-1684) was a French physicist who discovered independently of Boyle that the volume of a gas varies inversely with pressure. He proposed the word “barometer” for the instrument measuring the pressure of air and stated that Boyle's law holds only if there is no change in temperature.Naming citation (20030501/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Demariotte is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Demariotte is 2.85 au from the Sun and 1.94 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 11968 |
| Provisional designation | 1994 PR27 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 9.15 km (#5,651 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0770 |
| Rotation period | 16.6 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.72 |
| Orbital period | 4.53 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.74 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.59 – 2.89 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0539 |
| Inclination | 4.69° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.61 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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