656 Beagle

656 Beagle
Discovery
Discovered by	August Kopff
Discovery site	Heidelberg
Discovery date	22 January 1908
Designations
MPC designation	(656) Beagle
Alternative designations	1908 BU
Orbital characteristics^[1]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc	108.20 yr (39519 d)
Aphelion	3.5721 AU (534.38 Gm)
Perihelion	2.7241 AU (407.52 Gm)
Semi-major axis	3.1481 AU (470.95 Gm)
Eccentricity	0.13468
Orbital period	5.59 yr (2040.2 d)
Mean anomaly	95.5133°
Mean motion	0° 10^m 35.22^s / day
Inclination	0.51626°
Longitude of ascending node	184.308°
Argument of perihelion	330.715°
Earth MOID	1.73304 AU (259.259 Gm)
Jupiter MOID	1.42543 AU (213.241 Gm)
Jupiter Tisserand parameter	3.194
Physical characteristics
Mean radius	7001265850000000000♠26.585±2.75 km
Rotation period	7.255 ± 0.001 h^[2] 7.035 h (0.2931 d)^[1]
Geometric albedo	6998625000000000000♠0.0625±0.015
Absolute magnitude (H)	10.00

656 Beagle is a Themistian asteroid. It is a member of the Eos family.^[2]

References

1 2 "656 Beagle (1908 BU)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
1 2 Alvarez-Candal, Alvaro; et al. (December 2004), "Rotational lightcurves of asteroids belonging to families", Icarus, 172 (2): 388–401, Bibcode:2004Icar..172..388A, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2004.06.008.

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