1119 Euboea

1119 Euboea[1]
Discovery
Discovered by Reinmuth, K. at Heidelberg
Discovery date October 27, 1927
Orbital characteristics
Epoch October 27, 2007 (JD 2454400.5) TDB
Aphelion 3.011 AU
Perihelion 2.212 AU
2.612 AU
Eccentricity 0.1529
1541.6813 d(4.22 a)
71.105°
Inclination 7.867°
57.4780°
229.060°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 31.49 km
Albedo 0.0590
11.20

    1119 Euboea is a main belt asteroid orbiting the Sun. It was discovered by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth on October 27, 1927 at Heidelberg, Germany. Its provisional designation was 1927 UB. It was named for Euboea, or Negropont, the largest island of Greece in the Aegean.[2] The asteroid is 31½ kilometers in diameter and completes one revolution around the Sun in about 4 years.[1]

    Photometric observations of this asteroid collected during 2007 show a rotation period of 11.41 ± 0.201 hours with a brightness variation of 0.5 ± 0.02 magnitude.[3]

    References

    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser". Retrieved October 9, 2007.
    2. ↑ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer. ISBN 3-540-00238-3.
    3. ↑ Torno, Steven; Oliver, Robert Lemke; Ditteon, Richard (June 2008), "Asteroid Lightcurve Analysis at the Oakley Southern Sky Observatory - October 2007", Bulletin of the Minor Planets Section of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers 35 (2): 54–55, Bibcode:2008MPBu...35...54T.