(88961) Valpertile Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 14 October 2001 by Asiago-DLR Asteroid Survey at Cima Ekar.
Valerio Pertile (1932-2005) was a skilled and dedicated technician and night assistant at the Asiago Schmidt telescope from 1965 to 2000. He took the major fraction of the 16~000 plates acquired with that telescope, a most precious archive of photographic data.Naming citation (20070106/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Valpertile is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Valpertile is 2.94 au from the Sun and 3.69 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 88961 |
| Provisional designation | 2001 TH47 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 4.53 km (#11,574 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0950 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.29 |
| Orbital period | 4.45 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.70 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.44 – 2.97 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0979 |
| Inclination | 7.75° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.46 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Valerio
All asteroids named after someone called Valerio
Also discovered on 14 October 2001
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