78071 Vicent
Encyclopedia
78071 Vicent is a main belt asteroid
with an orbital period
of 1661.5282367 days (4.55 years).
The asteroid was discovered on June 1, 2002. It is named after the Spanish author Francesch Vicent, who in 1495 wrote Libre dels jochs partits dels schacs en nombre de 100, which established the modern rules of chess
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Asteroid
Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...
with an orbital period
Orbital period
The orbital period is the time taken for a given object to make one complete orbit about another object.When mentioned without further qualification in astronomy this refers to the sidereal period of an astronomical object, which is calculated with respect to the stars.There are several kinds of...
of 1661.5282367 days (4.55 years).
The asteroid was discovered on June 1, 2002. It is named after the Spanish author Francesch Vicent, who in 1495 wrote Libre dels jochs partits dels schacs en nombre de 100, which established the modern rules of chess
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
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