721 Tabora

721 Tabora
Discovery
Discovered by Franz Kaiser
Discovery site Heidelberg
Discovery date 18 October 1911
Designations
MPC designation (721) Tabora
1911 MZ
Orbital characteristics[1]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 104.47 yr (38159 d)
Aphelion 3.9621 AU (592.72 Gm)
Perihelion 3.1388 AU (469.56 Gm)
3.5504 AU (531.13 Gm)
Eccentricity 0.11595
6.69 yr (2443.6 d)
218.961°
 8m 50.388s / day
Inclination 8.3229°
38.411°
352.878°
Earth MOID 2.1434 AU (320.65 Gm)
Jupiter MOID 1.47765 AU (221.053 Gm)
TJupiter 3.089
Physical characteristics
Mean radius
38.035±1.25 km
7.982 h (0.3326 d)
0.0604±0.004
9.26

    721 Tabora is a planetoid orbiting the Sun.

    Tabora was named at a conference in Hamburg, Germany in 1913. The name was chosen because the conference was held aboard the passenger cargo liner Tabora of the Deutsche Ost-Afrika Linie.

    References

    1. "721 Tabora (1911 MZ)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 5 May 2016.


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