415 Palatia
Discovery | |
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Discovered by | Max Wolf |
Discovery date | 7 February 1896 |
Designations | |
MPC designation | (415) Palatia |
Named after | Electorate of the Palatinate |
1896 CO | |
Main belt | |
Orbital characteristics[1] | |
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
Observation arc | 116.21 yr (42447 d) |
Aphelion | 3.6320 AU (543.34 Gm) |
Perihelion | 1.95333 AU (292.214 Gm) |
2.7927 AU (417.78 Gm) | |
Eccentricity | 0.30055 |
4.67 yr (1704.6 d) | |
Average orbital speed | 17.83 km/s |
354.775° | |
0° 12m 40.284s / day | |
Inclination | 8.1710° |
126.975° | |
297.137° | |
Earth MOID | 0.981119 AU (146.7733 Gm) |
Jupiter MOID | 1.77105 AU (264.945 Gm) |
Jupiter Tisserand parameter | 3.246 |
Physical characteristics | |
Dimensions | ±4.6 km 76.34 |
20.73 h (0.864 d) | |
±0.008 0.0628 | |
DP | |
9.21 | |
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415 Palatia is a large main belt asteroid that was discovered by German astronomer Max Wolf on 7 February 1896 in Heidelberg.
10µ radiometric data collected from Kitt Peak in 1975 gave an overly large diameter estimate of 93 km. It has a very low radiometric albedo of 0.026 and the spectrum suggests a metal-rich enstatite composition.[2]
References
- ↑ Yeomans, Donald K., "415 Palatia", JPL Small-Body Database Browser, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, retrieved 10 May 2016.
- ↑ Morrison, D.; Chapman, C. R. (March 1976), "Radiometric diameters for an additional 22 asteroids", Astrophysical Journal, 204, pp. 934–939, Bibcode:2008mgm..conf.2594S, doi:10.1142/9789812834300_0469.
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