2029 Binomi

Minor Planet
name=2029 Binomi
discoverer=Paul Wild
discovery_date=September 11, 1969
designations=1969 RB; 1971 BX2;
1976 QV1
category=Main belt
epoch=November 26, 2005 (JD 2453700.5)
semimajor=351.590 Gm (2.350 AU)
perihelion=306.687 Gm (2.050 AU)
aphelion=396.494 Gm (2.650 AU)
eccentricity=0.128
period=1316.030 d (3.60 a)
inclination=5.589°
asc_node=278.111°
arg_peri=67.258°
mean_anomaly=24.406°
speed=19.35 km/s
dimensions=? km
mass=?×10^? kg
density=? g/cm³
gravity=? m/s²
escape_velocity=? km/s
rotation=? d
spectral_class=S-type asteroid
abs_mag=13.5
albedo=0.1?
temperature=~182 KThe asteroid 2029 Binomi was discovered on September 11 1969 by the Swiss astronomer Prof. Paul Wild at Zimmerwald observatory near Bern, Switzerland. The asteroid was named Binomi by Wild after one of his students had answered in an astronomy exam that a (virtual) mathematician "Binomi", who lived in the same time as (real) mathematician Bernoulli, had invented the Binomial equations, ignoring that binom simply comes from Latin Bi (two) and nomen (name, term).

Although Binomi has an orbit similar to the Vesta family asteroids, it was found to be an unrelated interloper on the basis of its non-matching spectral type.