10830 Desforges
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | E. W. Elst |
| Discovery site | La Silla Obs. |
| Discovery date | 20 October 1993 |
| Designations | |
| (10830) Desforges | |
Named after | Jacques Desforges (French priest) |
| 1993 UT6 · 1982 FS2 1984 SS7 | |
| main-belt · (middle) background · Eunomia | |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch 23 March 2018 (JD 2458200.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 35.27 yr (12,884 d) |
| Aphelion | 3.1271 AU |
| Perihelion | 2.1944 AU |
| 2.6607 AU | |
| Eccentricity | 0.1753 |
| 4.34 yr (1,585 d) | |
| 151.24° | |
| 0° 13m 37.56s / day | |
| Inclination | 11.153° |
| 178.72° | |
| 307.82° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 4.21 km (calculated) 7.692±2.245 km 9.390±0.203 km | |
| 8.804±0.0058 h | |
| 0.0635±0.0545 0.0797±0.0101 0.080±0.010 0.21 (assumed) | |
| S (assumed) | |
| 13.5 13.6 13.739±0.008 (R) 14.18 14.19 | |
10830 Desforges, provisional designation 1993 UT6, is a background or Eunomian asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 7 kilometers (4 miles) in diameter. It was discovered on 20 October 1993, by Belgian astronomer Eric Elst at the La Silla Observatory in northern Chile. The likely elongated S-type asteroid has a rotation period of 8.8 hours. It was named after French priest and aviation visionary Jacques Desforges.