(9376) Thionville Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 20 July 1993 by E. W. Elst at La Silla.
Named for the French city in northeastern France, near the Luxembourg border. It lies in the center of an iron-mining district.Naming citation (19990402/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Thionville is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Thionville is 2.75 au from the Sun and 3.02 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 9376 |
| Provisional designation | 1993 OU7 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 5.52 km (#9,686 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.277 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.6 |
| Orbital period | 4.44 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.70 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.59 – 2.82 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0427 |
| Inclination | 2.02° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.58 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also discovered on 20 July 1993
- (6977) Jaucourt
- (7478) Hasse
- (8096) Emilezola
- (8190) Bouguer
- (8191) Mersenne
- (10136) Gauguin
- (11571) Daens
- (11943) Davidhartley
- (11944) Shaftesbury
- (12352) Jepejacobsen
- (12353) Marquez
- (12755) Balmer
More named asteroids discovered by E. W. Elst
- (3631) Sigyn
- (3784) Chopin
- (3870) Mayre
- (3903) Kliment Ohridski
- (3910) Liszt
- (3912) Troja
- (3918) Brel
- (4038) Kristina
- (4226) Damiaan
- (4342) Freud
- (4344) Buxtehude
- (4345) Rachmaninoff
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