(96086) Toscanos Outer Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 29 September 1973 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T. at Palomar.
Toscanos is the site of ruins of a Phoenician colony (first millennium B.C.) on the Mediterranean coast of Spain near Torre del Mar, at the east of Malaga. Excavations started in 1964 have led to the discovery of these ruins.Naming citation (20060809/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Toscanos is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Toscanos is 3.61 au from the Sun and 4.12 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 96086 |
| Provisional designation | 1006 T-2 |
| Orbit class | Outer Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 8.70 km (#5,989 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0740 |
| Rotation period | 7.44 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.8 |
| Orbital period | 7.94 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.98 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 3.51 – 4.45 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.119 |
| Inclination | 4.94° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 2.50 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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