345972 Rufin

Summary

345972 Rufin is an asteroid^[1].

Key Facts

• 345972 Rufin is credited with the discovery of Bernard Christophe^[2].
• 345972 Rufin's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[3].
• 345972 Rufin's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Saint-Sulpice^[4].
• Jean-Christophe Rufin is named after 345972 Rufin^[5].
• 345972 Rufin's follows is recorded as 345971 Marktorrence^[6].
• 345972 Rufin's minor planet group is recorded as asteroid belt^[7].
• 345972 Rufin's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[8].
• 345972 Rufin's provisional designation is recorded as 2007 TM105^[9].
• 345972 Rufin's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2007-10-14T00:00:00Z^[10].
• 345972 Rufin's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20345972^[11].
• 345972 Rufin's significant event is recorded as naming^[12].
• 345972 Rufin's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+0.08045986319451534'}^[13].
• 345972 Rufin's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+17.36'}^[14].
• 345972 Rufin's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+0.6199635179139305'}^[15].
• 345972 Rufin's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q573', 'amount': '+1678.993417842387'}^[16].
• 345972 Rufin's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+167.8844404483086'}^[17].
• 345972 Rufin's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+2.764608959475091'}^[18].
• 345972 Rufin's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+2.987049018140788'}^[19].
• 345972 Rufin's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+2.542168900809394'}^[20].
• 345972 Rufin's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+175.9732665805451'}^[21].
• 345972 Rufin's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+15.18695936153054'}^[22].
• 345972 Rufin's Minor Planet Center body ID is recorded as 345972^[23].
• 345972 Rufin's epoch is recorded as November 21, 2025^[24].
• 345972 Rufin's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q14267', 'amount': '+2460929.6699866527'}^[25].

Body

Designation and Status

345972 Rufin's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[3].

History and Context

Jean-Christophe Rufin is named after 345972 Rufin^[5].