166 Rhodope
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A three-dimensional model of 166 Rhodope based on its light curve. | |
| Discovery | |
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| Discovered by | C. H. F. Peters |
| Discovery site | Clinton, New York |
| Discovery date | August 15, 1876 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 166 |
Named after | Rhodope |
| Main belt (Adeona) | |
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |
| Epoch August 27, 2011 | |
| Aphelion | 3.250 AU |
| Perihelion | 2.123 AU |
| 2.687 AU | |
| Eccentricity | 0.2097056 |
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1609.078 d 4.41 a | |
| 192.02657° | |
| Inclination | 12.02339° |
| 128.95798° | |
| 264.57111° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | 54.564[2] km |
| 4.715 h | |
| Albedo | 0.0747 ± 0.0160[2] |
Spectral type | GC:[2] (Tholen) |
| 9.750[2] | |
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166 Rhodope is a main belt asteroid, a member of the Adeona family of asteroids. It was discovered by the German-American astronomer Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters on August 15, 1876 in Clinton, New York and named after Rhodope, the queen in Greek mythology who was turned into a mountain.
166 Rhodope was observed occulting the prominent star Regulus on October 19, 2005 from Vibo Valentia, Italy.[3]
References
- ↑ Yeomans, Donald K., "166 Rhodope", JPL Small-Body Database Browser (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory), retrieved 2013-03-30.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Pravec, P. et al. (May 2012), "Absolute Magnitudes of Asteroids and a Revision of Asteroid Albedo Estimates from WISE Thermal Observations", Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2012, Proceedings of the conference held May 16-20, 2012 in Niigata, Japan (1667), Bibcode:2012LPICo1667.6089P. See Table 4.
- ↑ Sigismondi, Costantino; Troise, Davide (September 2008), "Asteroidal Occultation of Regulus: Differential Effect of Light Bending", Proceedings of the MG11 Meeting on General Relativity. Held 23-29 July 2006 in Berlin, Germany: 2594–2596, Bibcode:2008mgm..conf.2594S, doi:10.1142/9789812834300_0469.
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