1146 Biarmia
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Grigory Neujmin |
| Discovery date | 1929-May-07 |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch Orbital Elements at Epoch 2454400.5 (2007-Oct-27.0) TDB | |
| Aphelion | 3.817 AU |
| Perihelion | 2.287 AU |
| 3.052 AU | |
| Eccentricity | 0.2506 |
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1947.795 days 5.33 years | |
| 236.950° | |
| Inclination | 17.029° |
| 213.991° | |
| 64.307° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | 31.14 km diameter |
| 11.514 h | |
| 0.2190 | |
| 9.80 mag | |
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1146 Biarmia is a main belt asteroid orbiting the Sun. Approximately 31 kilometers in diameter, it makes a revolution around the Sun once every 5 years. It was discovered by Grigory Nikolaevich Neujmin on May 7, 1929.[1] After being assigned a provisional designation of 1929 JF, it was named after a legendary country Bjarmland in northern Russia near the Finnish border.[2]
Photometric observations of this asteroid collected during 1999 show a rotation period of 11.514 ± 0.004 hours with a brightness variation of 0.32 magnitude.[3]
References
- 1 2 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser". Retrieved October 17, 2007.
- ↑ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer. ISBN 3-540-00238-3.
- ↑ Warner, B. (March 2000), "Asteroid Photometry at the Palmer Divide Observatory", The Minor Planet Bulletin 27: 4–6, Bibcode:2000MPBu...27....4W.
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