1119 Euboea
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Reinmuth, K. at Heidelberg |
| Discovery date | 27 October 1927 |
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |
| Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 88.15 yr (32198 days) |
| Aphelion | 3.0173 AU (451.38 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 2.2050 AU (329.86 Gm) |
| 2.6111 AU (390.62 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.15555 |
| 4.22 yr (1541.1 d) | |
| 96.887° | |
| 0° 14m 0.924s / day | |
| Inclination | 7.8576° |
| 57.3798° | |
| 230.217° | |
| Earth MOID | 1.19817 AU (179.244 Gm) |
| Jupiter MOID | 2.14655 AU (321.119 Gm) |
| Jupiter Tisserand parameter | 3.379 |
| Physical characteristics | |
Mean radius | 15.745±2.4 km |
| 11.41 h (0.475 d) | |
| 0.0590±0.023 | |
| 11.3 | |
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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 2 3 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser". Retrieved 2 May 2016.
- ↑ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer. ISBN 3-540-00238-3.
- ↑ Torno, Steven; Lemke Oliver, Robert; Ditteon, Richard (June 2008), "Asteroid Lightcurve Analysis at the Oakley Southern Sky Observatory - October 2007", The Minor Planet Bulletin, 35 (2): 54–55, Bibcode:2008MPBu...35...54T.
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