(10468) Itacuruba Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 1 March 1981 by S. J. Bus at Siding Spring.
Itacuruba, also known as Nova Itacuruba, is a town in Pernambuco State, Brazil and site of the Observatório Astronômico do Sertão de Itaparica (OASI). The original city was flooded in 1988 in forming Itaparica Lake.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2017-03-12), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Itacuruba is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Itacuruba is 2.31 au from the Sun and 1.58 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 10468 |
| Provisional designation | 1981 EH9 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Rotation period | 13.0 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.64 |
| Orbital period | 3.58 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.34 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.90 – 2.78 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.187 |
| Inclination | 3.47° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.915 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Nova
All asteroids named after someone called Nova
Also discovered on 1 March 1981
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- (3016) Meuse
- (3029) Sanders
- (3030) Vehrenberg
- (3042) Zelinsky
- (3058) Delmary
- (3075) Bornmann
- (3135) Lauer
- (3308) Ferreri
- (3472) Upgren
- (3498) Belton
- (3503) Brandt